


And then immediately, once this was all done, I started writing more poems about fatherhood.” Somebody told me, you know, this is not the only book you’re going to write about fatherhood, and that was really really relieving and I was like, you know, you’re right, let’s let it be for this moment right here. Douglas Brown about fatherhood, the power of a good reader, and the need to write or die on the page

Douglas Brown’s debutĪct 3: Michael Cirelli speaks with F. “Even when what Brown has set out to do is grieve loss, his lines move with a buoyant, marrow-deep music, percussive and rich.”Īct 1: Host Amber Keller covers entertaining book news and cool new debutsĪct 2: Co-host authors Tracy K. Smith for the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and published by University of Georgia Press. “These poems lead us from the birth cry in a hospital delivery room, to dusk and revelry in Spain, to modern-day Florida and history-laden Mississippi where Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till were slain,” wrote Smith. Douglas Brown’s debut poetry collection, Zero to Three, which was chosen by Tracy K.
