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 was 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 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 Fishing with Blood (Purdue University Press, 1988), , – won the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer's Award The Eleusinian Mysteries MS (poems and images: limited edition artbook, The Moment Press, 1992) – with Norman Sasowsky Do Not Peel the Birches (Purdue University Press, 1993) The Earliest House (chapbook, Kutztown University, 1994) Devil's Child (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1998), , Breathing In Breathing Out (Anhinga Press, 2002) – won 2001 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2004), , Reunion (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007), , – won 2007 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry The woods are on fire : new and selected poems, Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017. ,
Anthologies
Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence (G. K. Hall & Company, 1988) – co-edited with Dennis Jackson On the Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers (University of Delaware Press, 2008) – co-edited with Billie Travalini
References
External links
Fleda Brown website Poetry and Politics Fleda Brown: Poet Laureate, Professor of English