Fleda Brown Explained

Fleda Brown
Native Name Lang:	English
Birth Name:	Fleda Sue Brown
Birth Place:	Columbia, Missouri, U.S.
Education:	English Ph.D from University of Arkansas
Alma Mater:	University of Arkansas
Genre:	Poetry
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Children:	Two
Awards:	Porter Prize (2001)

Fleda Brown (born 1944 in Columbia, Missouri) is an American poet and author. She is also known as Fleda Brown Jackson.

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,^[1] when she retired from the University of Delaware^[2] 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.^[3] 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.^[4]

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

Bibliography

Poetry

• 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

Anthologies

• 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

External links

• The Fleda Brown Web Site
• Poetry and Politics
• Fleda Brown: Poet Laureate, Professor of English

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fleda Brown : Poet Laureate, Professor of English. University of Delaware. 20 November 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101017173945/http://www.english.udel.edu/fleda/laureate.html. 17 October 2010. dead.
2. Web site: Department of English – Retired & Emeritus Faculty. University of Delaware. 20 November 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100820114456/http://www.english.udel.edu/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=506&Itemid=798. 20 August 2010. dead.
3. Web site: Fleda Brown. The Poetry Foundation. 20 November 2010.
4. Web site: Kevin Puts – Composer. 25 February 2017.