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Arthur Brown [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Camino Chupadero
Santa Fe, NM 87506
Email: 
ab48@evansville.edu
Bio: 

"Premonition" is the first poem in my first book, The Mackerel at St. Ives: A sort of surfacing it seemed to be, / as of a fish into the light and air / that for an instant, as it's hanging there / with a strangely steadfast certainty / takes on the currents of another sphere, / before it drops again into its own-- / heavy as a triply skipping stone / that will at last forever disappear. / Five gulls, their calls, the crescent moon and sky / (the gray unearthly white against the blue), / the spirit-sounding things of sea and shore / conjoin to lure my untrained ear and eye / to the endlessness of my own death-- / then leave me stranded here to live some more.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
New York
Raised in: 
Los Angeles, CA
California
Prizes won: 

American Literary Review Poetry Prize, Morton Marr Poetry Prize, Nebraska Shakespeare Festival Anne Dittrick Sonnet-Writing Contest, Arts & Letters Drama Award

Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults

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