Fleda Brown

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Fleda Brown
BornFleda Sue Brown
1944 (age 8081)
Columbia, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation
  • Poet
  • professor
  • teacher
EducationEnglish Ph.D from University of Arkansas
Alma materUniversity of Arkansas
GenrePoetry
Notable awards Porter Prize (2001)
ChildrenTwo

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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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

Bibliography

Poetry

Anthologies

References

  1. "Fleda Brown : Poet Laureate, Professor of English". University of Delaware. Archived from the original on 17 October 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
  2. "Department of English – Retired & Emeritus Faculty". University of Delaware. Archived from the original on 20 August 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
  3. "Fleda Brown". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
  4. "Kevin Puts – Composer" . Retrieved 25 February 2017.
External audio
Nuvola apps arts.svg Fleda Brown, The Poet and the Poem 2017-18 Series