F. Douglas Brown Poetry Workshops Keynote Speaker Manuscript Consultation
F. Douglas Brown is the author of two full-length poetry collections, ICON (Writ Large Press, 2018) and Zero to Three (University of Georgia, 2014). Zero to Three was the winner of the 2013 Cave Canem Prize, selected by US Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith. He also co-authored with poet Geffrey Davis, Begotten (URB Books, 2016), a chapbook of poetry that is a conversation between Davis and their respective children.
Brown, a classroom educator for over 20 years, has led poetry and creative writing workshops for youth and adults at Art Share LA, Beyond Baroque, CUNY, PEN Center USA, University of Mississippi, and many libraries and community centers across the country. He currently teaches American Literature and African American Poetry at Loyola High School of Los Angeles.
He is co-founder and co-curator of un::fade::able - The Requiem for Sandra Bland, a quarterly reading series examining restorative justice through poetry as a means to address racism. When he is not teaching, writing or with his children (Isaiah, Olivia, and Simone), he is busy DJing in the greater Los Angeles area.
Key Topics: African American Poetry • African American History • American Poetics • Poetry and Illustration • Ekphrasis • The Poetics of Image-Action-Risk • New Approaches to Formal Poetry • Musical Converges Within Poetry • Classroom Pedagogies with Poetry for Poets
Services: Readings • Lectures • Writing Workshops • Youth Poetry Workshops • Manuscript Consultations • Interviews • Reviews • Roundtable Moderation • Panel Discussions • Language Arts Curriculum Development
“Even when what Brown has set out to do is grieve loss, his lines move with a buoyant, marrow-deep music, percussive and rich.”
“F. Douglas Brown writes on behalf of the families we make and the families that make us. ”
“The poet reminds us of the choral, even collaborative, nature of our poetic traditions. He composes image and language artifact of the Black diaspora, the American literary canon, and Philippine and Filipino-American history.”