Name Fleda Brown Role Poet | Education University of Arkansas | |
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Books No Need of Sympathy, The women who love, Fishing with blood, Do not peel the birches, Breathing in - breathing | ||
Poetry vlog 1 i write my mother a poem by fleda brown
Fleda Brown (born in 1944 in Columbia, Missouri) is an American poet and author. She is also known as Fleda Brown Jackson.
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- Poetry vlog 1 i write my mother a poem by fleda brown
- Anne marie oomen and fleda brown
- Biography
- Education
- References
Anne marie oomen and fleda brown
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, 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.