I am NOT a poet

Michael Brown [THURSDAY, November 7th, 2019]

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WHAT:
- Michael Brown performs at the 1st Wednesday Zork’s Library Slam
- ODDLY on THURSDAY this month
- Price: FREE!!!
- GREAT Open Mic & Slam follows feature
- hosted by National Slam Poet Eric ZORK Alan

WHEN:
THURSDAY, November 7th, 2019 @ 7:00pm SHARP
[6:30pm sign up for Open Mic]

WHERE:
White Plains Public Library
100 Martine Ave.
White Plains, NY 10601
(914) 422-1486

Michael Brown Bio:
Michael R. Brown was born in Philadelphia in the first half of the last century. He was raised in the Pennsylvania Dutch country, attended Scranton University, and began teaching high school in an all-black, all-girls high school. He taught for two years in Bucks County, then went to the University of Michigan, where he earned a Ph.D. in English and Education, which included a dissertation in the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance directed by Robert Hayden. Thus began a professional life of teaching in five separate states. Meanwhile he has had five books of poetry published: Falling Wallendas, Tia Chucha (1994); The Man Who Makes Amusement Rides (Hanover Press), 2003;) Susquehanna (Ragged Sky, 2003); The Confidence Man (Ragged Sky, 2007). From 2008 until 2016, he and his wife Valerie Lawson put out Off the Coast, and international poetry quarterly. In 2017 they converted their work by establishing a book publishing enterprise, Resolute Bear Press, which published a book of his political poems, The Martin Bormann Dog Care Book and her 3 Nations Anthology with writing from Canada, Native American people, and New Englanders.

Meanwhile, Michael joined the slam poetry movement in Chicago and spread the phenomenon throughout New England. He and Patricia Smith established The Cantab (1992) in Cambridge, MA, carried the slam to Sweden, and led a US national championship team in 1993. With Erkki Lappalainen he organized the first Poetry Olympics in Stockholm in 1998. He also created Dr. Brown’s Traveling Poetry Show, a two-hour theater production.

Websites:
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