•   Fleda won a 2009 Pushcart Prize for her poem, "The Kayak and the Eiffel Tower," in The Southern Review (44:3).

•  Fleda's poem "Roofers," from The Georgia Review (62:1), will be included in Best American Poetry, 2009 (Scribner).

•   Fleda's book of memoir essays, Driving With Dvorak, will appear next spring from the University of Nebraska Press.

•   Fleda and sculptor William Allen have an exhibition, "Pointillism: A Conversation Between Artists in Two Forms," opening at the Dennos Museum in Traverse City, Michigan, on April 11, 2010.

•   Fleda has new poems this year in American Poetry Review, Cortland Review, Arts & Letters, The Iowa Review, and The Southern Review.

•  You can find poems by Fleda in these new anthologies:

When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women, ed. Andrea Hollander Budy, Autumn House Press, 2009. 

The Poets Guide to the Birds, ed. Judith Kitchen & Ted Kooser, Anhinga  Press, 2009

Don't Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review, ed. James Smith, The University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, 2009

•  On the Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers (University of Delaware Press, 2008), which Fleda co-edited with Billie Travalini, won the 2009 Delaware Press Association's first place award for book editing.

About Fleda Brown......

Fleda Brown was born in Columbia, Missouri, and grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She earned her Ph.D. in English (specialty in American Literature) from the University of Arkansas, and in 1978 she joined the faculty of the University of Delaware English Department, where she founded the Poets in the Schools Program, which she directed for more than 12 years. Her books, essays, and individual poems have won many awards. Her sixth collection of poems, Reunion (2007), was the winner of the Felix Pollak Prize from the University of Wisconsin. She has read and lectured in secondary schools, retirement communities, libraries, bookstores, a prison for delinquent adolescents, Rotary Clubs, AAUWs, and many universities and colleges, from Oxford University, Cambridge, to small liberal arts colleges. She has slept in a bunkhouse and has read with cowboy poets in North Dakota, and she has read for the Governor of Delaware and for the Delaware Legislature. She served as poet laureate of Delaware from 2001-2007, when she retired from the University of Delaware and moved to Traverse City, Michigan. She teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA, and she spends summers with her husband, Jerry Beasley, also a retired English professor, at their cottage on a small lake in northern Michigan. Between them, they have four children and ten grandchildren.

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