Steven Ford Brown - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Steven Ford Brown is an American journalist, music critic, publisher and translator in Boston, Massachusetts. Brown grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham. After moving to Boston he worked for several local universities. For almost a decade he worked in the European Equities Department of a private investment firm in Boston's Financial District. He resigned his position in January 2006 to travel and live in Europe and pursue a career as a music critic and journalist.

Early life

Of French and Scottish descent, Steven Ford Brown was born in Florence, Alabama, to Ford Brown (sales executive) and Gloria Peters (housewife). The family eventually moved to Birmingham and he grew up in a suburb of the city. While attending Huffman High School he became interested in the poetry and music of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...

and the poetry of Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan

Richard Gary Brautigan was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His work often employs black comedy, parody, and satire. He is best known for his 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America.- Early life :...

, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers...

, Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...

, Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

Jean-Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic...

and other members of the Beat Generation

Beat generation

The Beat Generation refers to a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired...

. During this time he was also influenced by the 1960s music of the San Francisco scene and the British Invasion bands. After high school he attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham

University of Alabama at Birmingham

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developing from an extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System...

, the University of Houston and Harvard University Extension School.

Southside, journalism, music, publishing

In 1973 Brown moved to Birmingham’s Southside, a community just below Red Mountain and ten minutes from the downtown area of Birmingham where the most violent confrontations of the Civil Rights era took place. Not unlike New York City's Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village, , , , .in New York often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families...

and San Francisco's Haight Ashbury during the 1960s, Southside, in stark contrast to the Civil Rights battleground in downtown Birmingham, was home to a tolerant alternative artistic, cultural and lifestyle scene. The Southside community featured an alternative newspaper (The Paperman), a Buddhist styled natural foods store (Golden Temple Health Foods), Society's Child, a folk music oriented coffeehouse, several communes, a headshop, a free medical clinic, the Charlemagne Record Exchange, The Garages art studios and the Red Mountain Alternative School.

Brown began his literary affiliations on Southside by joining a loose congregation of artists, writers and musicians who gathered and lived at the Cobb Lane Studios, a collection of apartments and studios above the Cobb Lane Restaurant on 20th Street. He began a writing career in earnest with The Paperman as an occasional journalist, books and literary editor and music reviewer. During this period he began a correspondence with John Martin

John Martin (publisher)

John Martin was the founder of Black Sparrow Press. He was in the book business for 36 years, retiring in 2002. He is most noted for helping to launch the literary career of Charles Bukowski and re-publishing the catalog of John Fante. He sold 650 titles annually, with more than $1 million in...

, publisher of Black Sparrow Press, and discovered Black Sparrow authors Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...

, Tom Clark

Tom Clark (poet)

Tom Clark is an American poet, editor and biographer. Clark was born on the Near West Side of Chicago and educated at the University of Michigan where he received a Hopwood Award for poetry. On March 22, 1968, he married Angelica Heinegg, at St. Mark’s Church, New York City...

, Jack Spicer

Jack Spicer

Jack Spicer was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance. In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the American Book Award for poetry.-Life and work:...

and Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski is a American poet who is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s.-Biography:...

. He would eventually correspond for several years with Wakoski. He created and edited for the paper an original series of features and profiles of American artists and writers that included Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal." A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid.....

, John Beecher

John Beecher

John Beecher was an activist poet, writer and journalist who wrote about the Southern United States during the Great Depression and the American Civil Rights Movement. Beecher was extremely active in the American labor and Civil Rights movements...

, Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...

, Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...

, Richard Hugo

Richard Hugo

Richard Hugo , born Richard Hogan, was an American poet. Primarily a regionalist, Hugo's work reflects the economic depression of the Northwest, particularly Montana. Born in White Center, Washington, he was raised by his mother's parents after his father left the family...

, Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski is a American poet who is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s.-Biography:...

and Poets against the Vietnam War. As a rock music critic and journalist he was among the first to champion Buckingham Nicks, the debut album by Lindsey Buckingham

Lindsey Buckingham

Lindsey Adams Buckingham is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being the guitarist and male lead singer of the musical group Fleetwood Mac. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released six solo albums and a live album...

and Stevie Nicks

Stevie Nicks

Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums...

before they joined Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac are a British–American rock band formed in 1967 in London.The only original member present in the band is its eponymous drummer, Mick Fleetwood...

. During this period he reviewed such recording artists as the Allman Brothers, Blondie

Blondie (band)

Blondie is an American rock band, founded by singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave and punk scenes of the mid-1970s...

, Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

, The Eagles, Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye

Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. , better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range....

, Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

, Van Morrison

Van Morrison

Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...

, Gram Parsons

Gram Parsons

Gram Parsons was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Parsons is best known for his work within the country genre; he also mixed blues, folk, and rock to create what he called "Cosmic American Music"...

, Jimmie Spheeris

Jimmie Spheeris

Jimmie Spheeris November 5, 1949 – July 4, 1984) was an American singer-songwriter who released four albums in the 1970s on the Columbia Records and Epic Records labels.He was of Greek descent...

, Michael Stanley

Michael Stanley

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, Alex Taylor

Alex Taylor

Alex Taylor is a former pornographic actress who mainly worked for Vivid Entertainment from 1998 to 2004....

, Steve Winwood

Steve Winwood

Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...

and Warren Zevon

Warren Zevon

Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...

Publishing, Old Town Music Hall

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He left The Paperman in 1975 to become editor of Aura Literary Arts Review at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, publishing work by Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima

was the pen name of , a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor and film director, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d'état...

(Japan), Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski is a American poet who is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s.-Biography:...

, and features on Robert Bly

Robert Bly

Robert Bly is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement.-Life:Bly was born in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, to Jacob and Alice Bly, who were of Norwegian ancestry. Following graduation from high school in 1944, he enlisted in the United States Navy, serving...

, Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov was an American poet. He was twice appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1963 to 1964, and again from 1988 to 1990. He received the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize for The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov...

, the American Prose Poem and Southern culture and literature. The same year he also founded a small literary press, Thunder City Press, which eventually became Ford-Brown & Co., Publishers, and continued to publish books until 1995. Over a twenty year period his two publishing houses published anthologies, broadsides, chapbooks, books and magazines that included literary work by John Beecher

John Beecher

, Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan

, Pier Giorgio DiCicco (Canada), Bei Dao

Bei Dao

Bei Dao is the pseudonym of Chinese poet Zhao Zhenkai . He was born in Beijing, his pseudonym was chosen because he came from the north and because of his preference for solitude...

(China), Mark Doty

Mark Doty

Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist.-Biography:He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested...

, Odysseus Elytis (Greece), Charles Gaines

Charles Gaines

Charles L. Gaines is an American writer and outdoorsman, notable for his works on fly fishing, his role in the development of paintball, and his photo-essay Pumping Iron, about the bodybuilding culture of the 1970s, which was later adapted into a documentary film of the same name.-Early...

, Andrew Glaze

Andrew Glaze

Andrew Glaze is an American poet, playwright, and novelist. About him, Robert Frost wrote, “I have high hopes for Mr. Glaze”. Although much of Glaze's poetry reflects his coming of age in the South, and eventual return there, he also lived in New York City for 31 years...

, Günter Grass

Günter Grass

Günter Wilhelm Grass is a Nobel Prize-winning German author, poet, playwright, sculptor and artist.He was born in the Free City of Danzig...

(Germany), Gail Godwin

Gail Godwin

Gail Kathleen Godwin is an American novelist and short story writer. She has published one non-fiction work, two collections of short stories, and eleven novels, three of which have been nominated for the National Book Award and five of which have made the New York Times Bestseller List.Godwin was...

, Enrique Anderson Imbert (Argentina), Carolyn Kizer

Carolyn Kizer

Carolyn Ashley Kizer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism.-Life and work:...

, John Logan, Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry

Larry Jeff McMurtry is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas...

. Vassar Miller

Vassar Miller

Vassar Miller was a writer and poet.Miller was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of real estate invester Jesse G. Miller. She began writing as a child, composing on a typewriter due to the cerebral palsy which affected her speech and movement. She attended the University of Houston, receiving...

, Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda....

(Chile), Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez is an African American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement. She has authored over a dozen books of poetry, as well as plays and children's books...

, Gerald Stern

Gerald Stern

Gerald Stern is an American poet. His work became widely recognized after the 1977 publication of Lucky Life, which was that year's Lamont Poetry Selection, and of a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review. He has subsequently been given many prestigious awards for his...

, Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel

Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.-Early...

, Georg Trakl

Georg Trakl

Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists.- Life and work :Trakl was born and lived the first 18 years of his life in Salzburg, Austria...

(Austria), Tomas Tranströmer

Tomas Tranströmer

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer is a Swedish writer, poet and translator, whose poetry has been translated into over 60 languages. Tranströmer is acclaimed as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since the Second World War...

(Sweden), Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and a director of several films.-Early life:...

(Russia) and Paul Zimmer.

With Birmingham writer Danny Gamble in 1980 he founded the Old Town Music and Reading series on Morris Avenue off of 20th Street North in downtown Birmingham. The founding of this performance series was the culmination of a number of years of sponsorship by Brown of conferences, readings and music performances by Birmingham artists. Brown and Gamble coordinated with Drew Tombrello, owner of The Old Town Music Hall, to present performances to packed audiences three times a year. Performers included many local musician and writers, such as The Broken Hearts, Johnny Coley, Lolly Lee, Charles Muse, The Ray Reach

Ray Reach

Raymond Everett Reach, Jr. is an American pianist, vocalist and educator residing in Birmingham, Alabama, now serving as Director of Student Jazz Programs for the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, director of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame All-Stars and President and CEO of Ray Reach Music and Magic City...

Group, Dale Short, Michael Swindle and Macey Taylor. There were also periodic performances and readings by such notable musicians and writers as Mose Allison

Mose Allison

Mose John Allison, Jr. is an American jazz blues pianist and singer.-Biography:...

, Michael Harper

Michael S. Harper

Michael Steven Harper is an American poet from Brooklyn, who was the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island from 1988 to 1993. He has published ten books of poetry, two of which, "Dear John, Dear Coltrane" and "Images of Kin" , have been nominated for the National Book Award. A great deal of his poetry...

, Philip Levine

Philip Levine (poet)

Philip Levine is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for over thirty years at the English Department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well...

, Larry Levis

Larry Levis

Larry Patrick Levis was an American poet.-Youth and Education:Larry Levis was born the son of a grape grower; he grew up driving a tractor, picking grapes, and pruning vines of Selma, California, a small fruit-growing town in the San Joaquin Valley...

, Shirley Williams and Larry Jon Wilson

Larry Jon Wilson

Larry Jon Wilson was an American country singer, guitarist and musician. He recorded "Through the Eyes of Little Children" and "I Betcha Heaven's on a Dirt Road".-Biography:...

Influences and Creative Work

As he began his mature work his creative influences included Robert Bly, Leonard Cohen, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Diane Wakoski. "Deep image" poets such as Bly, Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads...

, Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda....

, Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer

Tomas Tranströmer

and Wakoski had a particularly important impact on his poetry and creative outlook. His own published work since then has included essays, interviews, poetry and translations that have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Harvard Review, Poetry, Rolling Stone, Jacket (Australia), Verse and on the BBC Radio literary program The Verb He also edited One More River to Cross: The Selected Poems of John Beecher (introduction by Studs Terkel), and co-edited Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry with David Rigsbee, which was selected as one of the "Best of the Best from the University Presses" and featured on C-SPAN's "Book TV". He served as Director of Research for the George Plimpton interview series, The Writer in Society, which appeared on the Channel 8 PBS affiliate in Houston, Texas, and featured interviews with Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly...

, John Barth

John Barth

John Simmons Barth is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work.-Life:...

, Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme was an American author known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston , co-founder of Fiction Donald...

and Bobbie Anne Mason. His own research for the series was on the short fiction and novels of Barthelme.

Translations: Ángel González, Jorge Carrera Andrade

After moving to Texas, Brown began translating the work of Spanish poet Ángel González which resulted in the publication of Astonishing World: The Selected Poems of Ángel González, 1956-1986 (Milkweed Editions, 1992). His other books of translations include Nicomedes Suarez Arauz' Edible Amazonia: Twenty-One Poems From God’s Amazonian Recipe Book, Jorge Carrera Andrade's Century of the Death of the Rose and Microgramas, and Juan Carlos Galeano's Amazonia. He also edited two special issues of the Atlanta Review of poetry from Latin America and Spain (the Spanish issue included English translations of poets who wrote in their native languages of Basque, Castilian Spanish, Catalan and Galician). His most recent book, Microgramas, by Jorge Carrera Andrade was published in 2007 in an exclusive limited bilingual Spanish-English edition by Orogenia Corporacion Cultural in Quito, Ecuador, with distribution limited to South America.

Foetry

In 2004 Brown became active with the website Foetry.com, a movement started by Alan Cordle that criticized the incestuousness of American MFA literary programs and corruption in literary contests, particularly at the University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series, University of Iowa fiction and poetry contests and the University of North Texas Vassar Miller Prize contest. His efforts were primarily centered at the University of Iowa Press Poetry and Fiction Prize contests and the University of North Texas Vassar Miller Poetry Prize. He also provided background interviews for major articles on Alan Cordle and the Foetry.com movement that appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Los Angeles Times.
In 2005 an interview of Brown, “Foetry.com And What Academia Doesn't Want You to Know About the Creative Writing Industry,” appeared in VOX, an experimental literary journal based in Oxford, Mississippi, and was later reprinted in Left Curve, a literary journal based in San Francisco.

Awards and Grants

His translations and other publications have been supported by grants from the Spanish Cultural Ministry (Madrid, Spain), the National Endowment for the Arts, the Linn-Henley Charitable Trust, the Cultural Office of the Swedish Embassy in New York City and the Texas Commission for the Arts. The Birmingham Festival of Arts awarded him the Silver Bowl for his contributions to the literary arts of Birmingham, Alabama.

Boston and Music Journalism

He currently lives in East Somerville, Massachusetts while occasionally traveling in Europe, particularly Amsterdam, Barcelona, London and Stockholm. He was once in residence at the Swedish Writers Union in Stockholm. As a staff writer for Boston Music Spotlight Brown published interviews (with Boston Phoenix music critic Brett Milano and Barry Tashian of 1960s Boston rock group Barry & The Remains) and essays on the history of the Boston rock music scene, particularly focused on the Boston-Cambridge folk-rock music era of the 1960s in Harvard Square through the Boston punk rock era of the 1970s. In late 2010 he joined the website Exploit Boston! as a contributing writer, publishing an interview with folk singer Elizabeth Butters He has also published reviews of Scottish music group Camera Obscura

Camera obscura

The camera obscura is an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen. It is used in drawing and for entertainment, and was one of the inventions that led to photography. The device consists of a box or room with a hole in one side...

, Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

and a survey of the significant bands that made up San Francisco music scene of the 1960s.

Europe and Sports Journalism

Brown has been a featured writer at Boxing Herald.com and written feature articles on boxers Chris Byrd

Chris Byrd

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, Bernard Hopkins

Bernard Hopkins

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and Wladimir Klitschko

Wladimir Klitschko

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, the Ukrainian heavyweight champion. He published an essay, “The Saban Way,” just prior to the 2010 BCS National Championship Game predicting Alabama's win over Texas, despite having graduated from rival University of Alabama Birmingham. In 2011 he will be a featured speaker in a conference at the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier III, France, on the life and work of John Beecher

John Beecher

and Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Anthologies

Modern World Literature, edited by Holt Mcdougal, Houghton Mifflin, 2006
The Gift of Experience: The Atlanta Review 10th Anniversary Anthology, edited by Daniel Shapiro, Atlanta Review Press, 2005
Verse 20th Anniversary Issue, edited by Henry Hart, Verse Books, 2005
What Have You Lost?, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye, Green Willow Books, 2001
The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the Twentieth Century, edited by Douglas Messerli, Green Integer Books, 2000
The Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye, Aladdin Books, 1996
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, edited by J.D. McClatchy, Vintage Books, 1996
Beyond The Red, White & Blue: A Student's Introduction to American Studies, edited by Lewis Carlson, James M. Ferrei, Kendall Hunt Publishing, 1993
Carrying The Darkness: American Indochina – The Poetry of the Vietnam War, Avon Books, edited by W.D. Erhart, 1985
Contemporary Literature in Birmingham: An Anthology of Fiction and Poetry, Birmingham Public Library/Thunder City Press, edited by Steven Ford Brown, 1983

Books

International

(2007) Microgramas, Jorge Carrera Andrade
Jorge Carrera Andrade
Jorge Carrera Andrade was an Ecuadorian poet, historian, author, and diplomat during the 20th century. He was born in Quito, Ecuador in 1902. He died in 1978...

(as translator), Orogenia Corporacion Cultural: Quito, Ecuador (poetry)

United States

(2012) Brautiganesque: Growing Flowers By Moonlight, Lorca House Publishers (poetry)

(2012) Amazonia, prose poems by Juan Carlos Galeano (as translator), Lorca House Publishers (poetry)

(2012) Boston Stories, The Lion Publishing Group (fiction)

(2011) Microgramas, Jorge Carrera Andrade
Jorge Carrera Andrade
Jorge Carrera Andrade was an Ecuadorian poet, historian, author, and diplomat during the 20th century. He was born in Quito, Ecuador in 1902. He died in 1978...

(as translator) with artwork by Sandra C. Fernandez, Austin, Texas

(2003) One More River To Cross: The Selected Poems of John Beecher
John Beecher
John Beecher was an activist poet, writer and journalist who wrote about the Southern United States during the Great Depression and the American Civil Rights Movement. Beecher was extremely active in the American labor and Civil Rights movements...

, preface by Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel
Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.-Early...

(as editor), New South Books (poetry)

(2002) Century of The Death of The Rose: The Selected Poems of Jorge Carrera Andrade
Jorge Carrera Andrade
Jorge Carrera Andrade was an Ecuadorian poet, historian, author, and diplomat during the 20th century. He was born in Quito, Ecuador in 1902. He died in 1978...

(as translator), New South Books (poetry)

(2002) Edible Amazonia: Twenty Poems From God's Amazonian Recipe Book, Nicomedes Suarez Arauz (as translator), Bitter Oleander Press (poetry)

(2001) Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry (as co-editor with David Rigsbee), University of Virginia Press (literary criticism, poetry)

(1993) Astonishing World: The Selected Poems of Ángel González, 1956-1986 (as translator), Milkweed Editions (poetry)

(1988) Heart's Invention: On the Poetry of Vassar Miller
Vassar Miller
Vassar Miller was a writer and poet.Miller was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of real estate invester Jesse G. Miller. She began writing as a child, composing on a typewriter due to the cerebral palsy which affected her speech and movement. She attended the University of Houston, receiving...

, introduction by Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry
Larry Jeff McMurtry is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas...

(as editor), Ford-Brown & Co., Publishers (literary criticism, poetry)

(1988) Contemporary Literature in Birmingham: An Anthology (as editor), Birmingham Public Library/Thunder City Press (fiction and poetry)

External links

Sports Journalism

Boxing

"Friday Night Fights: Chris Byrd vs Shaun George or The Magic, Science and Voodoo of Matchmaking" (Boxing Herald, August 7, 2008)

College Football

"The Saban Way: Alabama Will Defeat Texas In The Rose Bowl" (January 6, 2010)

Music Reviews and interviews

From San Francisco to Bosstown: The Boston Rock Scene, 1960s, Part 1, from Boston Music Spotlight, September 28, 2007
The Counter-Culture Camps Out On The Boston Common: The Boston Rock Scene, 1960s, Part 2, from Boston Music Spotlight, October 12, 2007
Fleetwood Mac, Velvet Underground With Andy Warhol Play Boston, 1969, Boston Music Spotlight, November 16, 2007
"The San Francisco Music Scene In The 1960s," from Music For iPods, April 1, 2007
"Ready To Hang Her Hat on a Star: The Elizabeth Butters Interview," Exploit Boston!, December 14, 2010

Professional Website and Brown Interviews

Jorge Carrera Andrade

Andrade Biografia de Jorge Carrera Andrade en Wikipedia
The Rediscovery of Jorge Carrera Andrade: A Celebration at Assumption College, Introduction by Steven Ford Brown
"Jorge Carrera Andrade in America," Jacket Magazine (Australia), July 2000
Feature: Jorge Carrera Andrade, The Drunken Boat, Summer 2000
Jorge Carrera Andrade Special Collection, Stony Brook University Libraries
Three Poems by Jorge Carrera Andrade, The Cortland Review, May 1999
Biografia de Jorge Carrera Andrade (Biografias y vidas)
Ahad Saremi, Poem by Jorge Carrera Andrade translated into Persian, World Literature, June 20, 2008

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