BOOKS AND CHAPBOOKS
SEPTEMBER 12
“A more haunting memorial to 9/11 than this book will be hard to find. … ” —Martha Collins
DOMESTIC KARMA
“Birds in the trees, winds in our dreams, ghosts in the words, birds as words: there’s so much lovely transmogrification in the fine new poems of Andrea Carter Brown, we find ourselves often on the borders of things, where this is indeed that, and gloriously so. …” –Alan Michael Parker
THE DISHEVELED BED
“Andrea Carter Brown writes well by training her intelligence and keen attention on matters of heartfelt importance, and her poems come alive with all the pleasure and pain of living with eyes open. … The poems celebrate the strength of mind and the art that find truths in experience unblurred by evasion.” —Brooks Haxton
BROOK AND RAINBOW
Published by The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, April 2001
2000 Chapbook Competition Winner
ANTHOLOGIES
LIKE LIGHT
“These two poems, representing my former life in NYC on the Hudson River and my current home in the California desert, sum up, on facing pages, the two central geographic poles of my creative life.”- Andrea Carter Brown
ENTERING THE REAL WORLD
“This anthology is at once a work of literary merit, a celebratory offering, and an historical record of an hallowed place.”
—Margaret B. Ingraham
STORIES TO KEEP YOU COMPANY
“Here are uplifting and inspiring poems that focus on life’s gifts – everyday pleasures: love and family, food and home, work and play, dreams and the earth. This collection, originally offered only to hospitals and physicians’ waiting rooms, was received with great success and is now available to a wider audience.”- Joan Cusack Handler
I SPEAK OF THE CITY
“Other US cities have nourished their share of wonderful poets, but New York City is unique as a breeding ground and literary capital, a magnet for genius and talent. You’ll find old favorites and splendid surprises alike in Stephen Wolf’s lovingly assembled anthology. I Speak of the City is an unadulterated treat.” —David Lehman
BLUES FOR BILL
POETRY AFTER 9/11
“How did it feel and what did it mean to be there, at Ground Zero? Or ambling nearby? These poems give some answers….” – Alicia Ostriker
“Blues for Bill celebrates the life and work of the poet William Matthews through his own language, that of poetry….” —The Editors
ESSAYS
IN PRINT
“An Interview with Marilyn Hacker”
Five Points, Vol.18, No.3, 2018.
Excerpt from the introduction:
“Marilyn Hacker inherited me from William Matthews when I went back to finish my M.A. in Creative Writing at City College after 9/11. The city, and the country, were still in turmoil over a year after the attacks; we were being drawn into a second war, wars which have brought about untold suffering and destruction. I was trying to resume my old life after witnessing the events of that day first-hand and being displaced from my home a block away for six months. In the relative peace of Marilyn’s prosody workshop, I first encountered the forms which would give me a structure to contain and express my anger and grief. It was a miracle to hear the iambic pentameter of everyday English when she spoke, the unusual meter of sapphics and alcaics, to appreciate how many complicated forms Agha Shahid Ali managed to combine in a single poem. That forms could mitigate loss is nothing new, yet it changed my life, both creative and personal. Since then, Marilyn has moved to Paris, and I, to Los Angeles. From our new homes on the edges of two continents, across an ocean, we began this email conversation. We discussed her most recent collection, A Stranger’s Mirror (W. W. Norton & Company, 2016), her move to Paris, and her work. She talks movingly of her current passion, translation, of giving voice to exiles and the dispossessed. Imagine yourself with a glass of Gigondas (which she poured at my NYC book party) or a true verveine from Morocco as you sit down to read.”
“An Interview with Mark Doty”
Five Points, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2008.
Excerpt from the introduction:
“Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, his most recent collection, was published in March 2008. In anticipation of the book’s publication, Mark graciously invited me to interview him in his summer home on Fire Island. September15, 2007, a blustery morning on the tail end of a wicked electrical storm, I took the little ferry across Great South Bay to The Pines. Mark met me at the landing. Almost immediately, as we walked down the sandy lane amid pitch pines and scrub oaks to his house, we started talking about poetry. Getting settled on the sofa in his living room, I looked around for an object on which to prop the digital recorder and noticed a deer antler with three prongs. Commenting that this seemed ‘perfect,’ Mark explained that he had recently found the ending to a poem about a local stag on which he had been working for a long time. Thus the interview begins midstream of our discussion about that poem.”
ONLINE
“Leda in Red Sneakers: A Remembrance of Mona van Duyn”
Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Volume 7, Number 4, Winter 2006.
http://washingtonart.com/beltway/vanduyn.html
“The Bard of Main 903: M. L. Rosenthal Revisited”
Poetic Ancestors Issue
Beltway Poetry Quarterly, 13:4, Fall 2012.
http://www.beltwaypoetry.com/m-l-rosenthal/
“Introduction”
DC Places Issue (Guest Co-Editor)
Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Volume 7, Number 3, 2006.
http://washingtonart.com/beltway/brownintro.html
“On Poetry and Growing Oranges, Tangerines, Lemons, and Limes”
Andrea Carter Brown Shares Her Thoughts
Five Points Blog, April 12, 2012.
https://5ptsjournal.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/five-points-guest-post-andrea-carter-brown-shares-her-thoughts-and-her-poetry/
“The Many Lives of a Poem”
Andrea Carter Brown: Poet Behind the Poetry
CavanKerry Press Blog, April 15, 2013.
https://cavankerrypress.org/?s=andrea+carter+brown