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Event
Nathan Brown
Catfish Concert Series
Sunday, August 17
5:00pm
Nathan Brown
Nathan Brown is a songwriter, photographer, and award-winning poet from Norman, Oklahoma. He is also serving as the current Poet Laureate of the State of Oklahoma for 2013 to 2014. He holds an interdisciplinary PhD in English and Journalism (Creative and Professional Writing) but mostly travels now, performing readings and concerts as well as speaking and leading workshops in high schools, universities, and community organizations on creativity, creative writing, and the need for readers to not give up on poetry.
He has published eight books:
Karma Crisis: New and Selected Poems (2012)a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize in New Jersey and the Oklahoma Book Award
Letters to the One-Armed Poet: A Memoir of Friendship, Loss, and Butternut Squash Ravioli (2011)
My Sideways Heart (2010)
Two Tables Over (2008)Winner of the 2009 Oklahoma Book Award
Not Exactly Job (2007)a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award
Ashes Over the Southwest (2005)
Suffer the Little Voices (2005)a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award
Hobson's Choice (2002).
He has received two Pushcart Prize nominations, was a finalist for the 2013 Paterson Poetry Prize in New Jersey, and his CD of original songs, Gypsy Moon, came out in 2011.
Nathan's work has appeared in: World Literature Today; Concho River Review; Blue Rock Review; Descant; Malpaís Review; Texas Poetry Calendar; Chokecherries; Sugar Mule; Di-verse-city (anthology of the Austin International Poetry Festival); Wichita Falls Literature and Art Review; "Walt's Corner" of The Long-Islander newspaper (a column started by Whitman in 1838); Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas; Oklahoma Today Magazine; Oklahoma Humanities Magazine; Blood and Thunder; Blueberry Rain and Chocolate Snow; Windhover; Byline Magazine; Blue Hole: Magazine of the Georgetown Poetry Festival; Christian Ethics Today; Crosstimbers; and Poetrybay.com
as well as in seven anthologies: Travelin' Music: A Poetic Tribute to Woody Guthrie (Village Books Press, Cheyenne); Two Southwests (VAC, Chicago); Ain't Nobody That Can Sing Like Me: New Oklahoma Writing (Mongrel Empire Press, Albuquerque); Wingbeats: Exercises & Practice in Poetry (Dos Gatos Press, Austin); New Poetry Appreciation (Yunnan University Press, Kunming, China); AGAVE: A Celebration of Tequila (Ink Brush Press); and the prestigious 8 Voices: Contemporary Poetry from the American Southwest (Baskerville Publishers).
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LocationCatfish Concerts (View)
2506 Lazy Oaks Drive
Austin, TX 78745
United States
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