Free Write with Fleda Brown

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Free Write with
Fleda Brown

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Free Write into Outer Space

We all have channels our work tends toward, memories and thoughts that head out in all the directions we’re used to. It’s hard to break our habits, but when we can, we often discover so much more. There’s no magic formula, but with some prompting, it is possible to broaden the scope of our poems, stories, and essays. This free-write is designed to help you take your work, no matter what genre, places you never imagined.

"Fleda Brown’s tenth collection of poems, Flying Through a Hole in the Storm  (2021) won the Hollis Summers Prize from Ohio University Press and is an Indie finalist. Earlier poems can be found in The Woods Are On Fire: New & Selected Poems, chosen by Ted Kooser for his University of Nebraska series, 2017. Her work has appeared three times in The Best American Poetry and has won a Pushcart Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer’s Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her new memoir is Mortality, with Friends (Wayne State University Press, and MIPA finalist, and Midwest Book Award winner in memoir). She is professor emerita at the University of Delaware and was poet laureate of Delaware from 2001-07.