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. ISBN  9780803294943, OCLC  957705124
• Reunion (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007) ISBN  9780299221805, OCLC  71552368 – won 2007 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry
• The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2004) ISBN  9780887484032, OCLC  55071858
• Breathing In Breathing Out (Anhinga Press, 2002) – won 2001 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
• Devil's Child (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1998) ISBN  9780887482885, OCLC  41226060
• 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) ISBN  9780911198942, OCLC  17202526 – 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

References

External links

External audio
Fleda Brown, The Poet and the Poem 2017-18 Series

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