Fleda Brown
Fleda Brown (born 1944 in Columbia, Missouri) is an American poet and author. She is also known as Fleda Brown Jackson.
Fleda Brown
- Name
- Fleda Brown
- Birth Name
- Fleda Sue Brown
- Born
- 1944
- Birthplace
- Columbia, Missouri, U.S.
- Occupation
- * Poet
- Education
- English Ph.D from University of Arkansas
- Awards
- Porter Prize (2001)
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
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Fleda Brown (born 1944 in Columbia, Missouri) is an American poet and author. She is also known as Fleda Brown Jackson.
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Fleda Brown (born 1944) is a poet and writer, of American nationality. The poet was born in Columbia.
Fleda Brown was educated at University of Arkansas. The poet worked for Pacific Lutheran University and University of Delaware. Languages used include English.
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• Name — Fleda Brown • Birth Name — Fleda Sue Brown • Born — 1944 • Birthplace — Columbia, Missouri, U.S. • Occupation — * Poet • professor • teacher • Education — English Ph.D from University of Arkansas • Alma Mater — University of Arkansas • Genre — Poetry • Children — Two • Awards — Porter Prize (2001)
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Biography
Fleda Brown was born in Columbia, Missouri, and raised in Fayetteville, Arkansas. In 1978, she joined the University of Delaware English Department. There she founded the Poets in the Schools Program, which she directed for more than twelve years. She served as poet laureate of Delaware from 2001 to 2007, when she retired from the University of Delaware and moved to Traverse City, Michigan. She currently teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Her husband, Jerry Beasley, is also a retired English professor. One of Brown's poems, "If I Were a Swan", has been set for choir by Kevin Puts.
Education
Education
• Ph.D. (English, Pre-1900 American Literature), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1983 • M.A. (English), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1976 • B.A. (English), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1969
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- 1.University of Delaware. Fleda Brown : Poet Laureate, Professor of English.
- 2.University of Delaware. Department of English – Retired & Emeritus Faculty.
- 3.The Poetry Foundation. Fleda Brown.
- 4.Kevin Puts – Composer.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 11
- The woods are on fire : new and selected poems, Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017. ,
- Reunion (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007) , – won 2007 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry
- The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2004) ,
- Breathing In Breathing Out (Anhinga Press, 2002) – won 2001 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
- Devil's Child (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1998) ,
- The Earliest House (chapbook, Kutztown University, 1994)
- Do Not Peel the Birches (Purdue University Press, 1993)
- The Eleusinian Mysteries MS (poems and images: limited edition artbook, The Moment Press, 1992) – with Norman Sasowsky
- Fishing with Blood (Purdue University Press, 1988) , – won the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer’s Award
- On the Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers (University of Delaware Press, 2008) – co-edited with Billie Travalini
- Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence (G. K. Hall & Company, 1988) – co-edited with Dennis Jackson
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