Kevin Brown (poet) explained

Kevin Brown
Birth Date:July 9, 1970
Birth Place:Jackson, Tennessee, United States
Occupation:Author, poet, and teacher
Nationality:American
Notableworks:Exit Lines (2009), Another Way (2012), They Love to Tell the Story: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels (2012), A Lexicon of Lost Words (2014), Liturgical Calendar: Poems (2014)

Kevin Brown (born July 9, 1970) is an American poet, author and teacher. He has published three full collections of poems--Liturgical Calendar: Poems;[1] A Lexicon of Lost Words;[2] and Exit Lines,[3] as well as a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again.[4] He has also published essays in The Chronicle of Higher Education,[5] [6] [7] Academe,[8] [9] InsideHigherEd,[10] [11] [12] [13] The Teaching Professor, and Eclectica Magazine.[14] [15] [16] [17] He has published a work of scholarship--They Love to Tell the Story: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels[18] —as well as critical articles on Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth, Ralph Ellison, Tony Earley, and what English majors do after graduation.[19] [20] He regularly writes reviews for NewPages.com,[21] solrad,[22] and Soapberry Review.[23]

Early life

Kevin Brown was born in Jackson, Tennessee. He grew up in Johnson City, Tennessee, with his parents and two siblings. Both of his parents worked at East Tennessee State University (ETSU).[24] His father, Jim Brown, attended ETSU as a student and was inducted into the ETSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002.[25] As a teenager, Kevin competed in Bible Bowl competitions.[26]

Education

Kevin received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Milligan College[27] in Elizabethton, Tennessee. He went on to pursue a Master's degree in English from East Tennessee State University and graduated in 1994. He finished his Ph.D in English in December 1996, graduating from the University of Mississippi. He returned to school for a Master's in Library and Information Science, graduating in 1999 from the University of Alabama. He received his Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Murray State University in 2012.

Work experience

His first jobs were in private high schools, as Kevin began teaching English in 1997 at the Culver Academies, where he also worked as an assistant coach for the girls basketball team. After attending the University of Alabama, he was hired at Stratford Academy, where he taught for one year before serving as librarian for one year. In 2001, he was hired at Lee University as an assistant professor of English. He worked for Lee for two years, then moved to Tacoma, Washington to take a position as Upper School Librarian. He worked there one year before returning to Lee, where he taught until 2021. He was a professor of English there, teaching both literature and creative writing courses. He was the first of only two professors to receive all three major faculty awards (teaching, advising, and scholarship).[28] He currently teaches at Ensworth School,[29] where he has taught or is teaching Advanced Placement Literature and Composition; 10th Grade English; Prose Writing; Linguistics; Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion; and The Literature of Immigration. He also advises the literary magazine.

Bibliography

Full-Length Poetry Collections

Exit Lines: Poems (2009, Plain View Press)

A Lexicon of Lost Words (2014, Snake Nation Press)

Liturgical Calendar: Poems (2014, Wipf and Stock Publishers)

Chapbooks

Abecedarium (2011, Finishing Line Press)

Holy Days (2012, Split Oak Press)

Memoir

Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding Faith Again (2012, Wipf and Stock Publishers)

Literary Criticism

They Love to Tell the Story: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels (2012, Kennesaw State University Press)

Awards and honors

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Liturgical Calendar | WipfandStock.com. wipfandstock.com.
  2. Web site: Snake~Nation~Press » A Lexicon of Lost Words . www.snakenationpress.org . 6 June 2022 . https://archive.today/20141230184405/http://www.snakenationpress.org/product/a-lexicon-of-lost-words/ . 30 December 2014 . dead.
  3. Web site: Home Page. Plain View Press.
  4. Web site: Another Way | WipfandStock.com. wipfandstock.com.
  5. Web site: A Post-Tenure Review. 13 July 2009. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 4 May 2023.
  6. Web site: Going Backstage in Students' Lives. 14 October 2009. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 4 May 2023.
  7. Web site: Living in a Different World. 8 December 2009. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 4 May 2023.
  8. Web site: AAUP: Writing What I Want in a Publish-or-Perish World . 2012-03-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100605183838/http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2008/JA/Feat/brow.htm . 2010-06-05 . dead .
  9. Web site: AAUP: That's Not Funny, Actually . 2012-03-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081203123939/http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2007/MJ/Feat/brow.htm . 2008-12-03 . dead .
  10. Web site: Higher Education Career Advice. www.insidehighered.com.
  11. Web site: Views. www.insidehighered.com.
  12. Web site: Higher Education Career Advice. www.insidehighered.com.
  13. Web site: Higher Education Career Advice. www.insidehighered.com.
  14. Web site: I Was a Teenage Fundamentalist - Nonfiction by Kevin Brown - Eclectica Magazine v12n4. www.eclectica.org.
  15. Web site: In Praise of the Rut - Nonfiction by Kevin Brown - Eclectica Magazine v13n3. www.eclectica.org.
  16. Web site: Why I Don't Write - Kevin Brown - Eclectica Magazine v7n4. www.eclectica.org.
  17. Web site: Songs, Poems, and Missing the Point Completely - Nonfiction by Kevin Brown - Eclectica Magazine v14n1. www.eclectica.org.
  18. Web site: <Brown-Kevin-Bookpage> . 2012-06-11 . 2012-06-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120617152643/http://www.kennesaw.edu/ksupress/BROWN-KEVIN-BOOKPAGE.shtml . dead .
  19. Web site: What Can They Do with an English Major: Showing Students the Breadth of the Discipline through the Introductory Course to the Discipline and Advising . 2012-03-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120512033740/http://www2.widener.edu/~cea/382brown.htm . 2012-05-12 . dead .
  20. Web site: Lee University - Cleveland TN . 2012-03-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100728231919/http://directory.leeuniversity.edu/MaintainDirectory.aspx?op=Bios&ID=478 . 2010-07-28 . dead .
  21. Web site: You searched for %22kevin brown%22 .
  22. Web site: Kevin Brown, Author at SOLRAD .
  23. Web site: Soapberry Review .
  24. Web site: East Tennessee State University. www.etsu.edu.
  25. Web site: Members | Official Site of East Tennessee State Athletics. Streamline Technologies | Nashville. TN. ETSUBucs.com.
  26. Web site: National Bible Bowl - Welcome . 2011-09-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110910125744/http://www.biblebowl.net/Welcome.aspx?VSN=BX . 2011-09-10 . dead .
  27. Web site: Homepage - Milligan University. 3 September 2020. 4 May 2023.
  28. Web site: Administration, Faculty and Staff - Lee University - Acalog ACMS™. catalog.leeuniversity.edu.
  29. Web site: Ensworth School | Private, Independent, Co-Ed, K-12 School in Nashville, TN .
  30. http://www.leeuniversity.edu/newsEvents/newsDetails.aspx?Channel=%2fChannels%2fAll+Content&WorkflowItemID=59731946-5792-4f8b-b91f-8704dfe9cadf{{dead link|date=June 2020}}
  31. Web site: News. 4 May 2023.
  32. Web site: News. https://archive.today/20120804123214/http://www.leeuniversity.edu/newsEvents/newsDetails.aspx?Channel=/Channels/All+Content&WorkflowItemID=c7c56732-56c7-4fe9-b07b-a986eb0ec795. dead. August 4, 2012.
  33. Web site: News. 4 May 2023.
  34. Web site: Snake~Nation~Press » Winners . https://archive.today/20141230184333/http://www.snakenationpress.org/2013/08/07/winners/ . 30 December 2014 . dead.
  35. Web site: Spring Poetry Book Award Winner, 2014 | Quercus Review Press. quercusreviewpress.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20141205072305/http://quercusreviewpress.com/2014/07/22/spring-poetry-book-award-winner-2014/ . 2014-12-05.
  36. Web site: iCloud.

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