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Kevin Brown (poet)

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Kevin Brown
BornJuly 9, 1970
Jackson, Tennessee, United States
OccupationAuthor, poet, and teacher
NationalityAmerican
Notable worksExit Lines (2009), Another Way (2012), They Love to Tell the Story: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels (2012), A Lexicon of Lost Words (2014), Liturgical Calendar: Poems (2014)

Kevin Brown (born July 9, 1970) is an American poet, author and teacher. He has published three full collections of poems--Liturgical Calendar: Poems;[1] A Lexicon of Lost Words;[2] and Exit Lines,[3] as well as a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again.[4] He has also published essays in The Chronicle of Higher Education,[5][6][7] Academe,[8][9] InsideHigherEd,[10][11][12][13] The Teaching Professor, and Eclectica Magazine.[14][15][16][17] He has published a work of scholarship--They Love to Tell the Story: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels[18]—as well as critical articles on Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth, Ralph Ellison, Tony Earley, and what English majors do after graduation.[19][20] He regularly writes reviews for NewPages.com,[21] solrad,[22] and Soapberry Review.[23]

Early life

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Kevin Brown was born in Jackson, Tennessee. He grew up in Johnson City, Tennessee, with his parents and two siblings. Both of his parents worked at East Tennessee State University (ETSU).[24] His father, Jim Brown, attended ETSU as a student and was inducted into the ETSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002.[25] As a teenager, Kevin competed in Bible Bowl competitions.[26]

Education

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Kevin received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Milligan College[27] in Elizabethton, Tennessee. He went on to pursue a Master's degree in English from East Tennessee State University[24] and graduated in 1994. He finished his Ph.D in English in December 1996, graduating from the University of Mississippi. He returned to school for a Master's in Library and Information Science, graduating in 1999 from the University of Alabama. He received his Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Murray State University in 2012.[20]

Work experience

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His first jobs were in private high schools, as Kevin began teaching English in 1997 at the Culver Academies, where he also worked as an assistant coach for the girls basketball team. After attending the University of Alabama, he was hired at Stratford Academy, where he taught for one year before serving as librarian for one year. In 2001, he was hired at Lee University as an assistant professor of English. He worked for Lee for two years, then moved to Tacoma, Washington to take a position as Upper School Librarian. He worked there one year before returning to Lee, where he taught until 2021. He was a professor of English there, teaching both literature and creative writing courses.[20] He was the first of only two professors to receive all three major faculty awards (teaching, advising, and scholarship).[28] He currently teaches at Ensworth School,[29] where he has taught or is teaching Advanced Placement Literature and Composition; 10th Grade English; Prose Writing; Linguistics; Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion; and The Literature of Immigration. He also advises the literary magazine.

Bibliography

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Full-Length Poetry Collections

Exit Lines: Poems (2009, Plain View Press)

A Lexicon of Lost Words (2014, Snake Nation Press)

Liturgical Calendar: Poems (2014, Wipf and Stock Publishers)

Chapbooks

Abecedarium (2011, Finishing Line Press)

Holy Days (2012, Split Oak Press)

Memoir

Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding Faith Again (2012, Wipf and Stock Publishers)

Literary Criticism

They Love to Tell the Story: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels (2012, Kennesaw State University Press)

Awards and honors

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  • Lee University Excellence in Teaching award, 2011-12[30]
  • Lee University Excellence in Scholarship Recipient, 2009-10[31]
  • Lee University Excellence in Advising award, 2010-11[32]
  • Sigma Tau Delta Outstanding Regional Sponsor Award, Southern Region, 2010-11[33]
  • First Place in Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry, Snake Nation Press, 2012; A Lexicon of Lost Words[34]
  • Honorable Mention and Finalist in Quercus Review Spring Poetry Book Award Contest, 2014; Jack Imagines a Different Map[35]
  • First Place in Split Oak Press Chapbook Competition, 2011; Holy Days
  • Finalist for Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry (The Broome Review and Split Oak Press), 2011; Holy Days[36]
  • Semi-Finalist in Elixir Antivenom Poetry Award, 2011; A Lexicon of Lost Words
  • Finalist in Elixir Press Eleventh Annual Poetry Awards, 2010; A Lexicon of Lost Words
  • Finalist in Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award, 2010; Holy Days
  • Finalist in Copperdome Poetry Chapbook Competition, 2010; Holy Days
  • Finalist in Plan B Press Poetry Chapbook Competition, 2010; Holy Days
  • Honorable Mention and Two Finalists for Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize, The Heartland Review, 2010
  • Two Honorable Mentions for Ruth Redel Poetry Contest, The Heartland Review, 2010
  • Second Runner-Up in Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award, 2009; Abecedarium

References

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  1. ^ "Liturgical Calendar | WipfandStock.com". wipfandstock.com.
  2. ^ "Snake~Nation~Press » A Lexicon of Lost Words". www.snakenationpress.org. Archived from the original on December 30, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
  3. ^ "Home Page". Plain View Press.[failed verification]
  4. ^ "Another Way | WipfandStock.com". wipfandstock.com.
  5. ^ "A Post-Tenure Review". The Chronicle of Higher Education. July 13, 2009. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
  6. ^ "Going Backstage in Students' Lives". The Chronicle of Higher Education. October 14, 2009. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
  7. ^ "Living in a Different World". The Chronicle of Higher Education. December 8, 2009. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
  8. ^ "AAUP: Writing What I Want in a Publish-or-Perish World". Archived from the original on June 5, 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
  9. ^ "AAUP: That's Not Funny, Actually". Archived from the original on December 3, 2008. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
  10. ^ "Higher Education Career Advice". www.insidehighered.com.
  11. ^ "Views". www.insidehighered.com.
  12. ^ "Higher Education Career Advice". www.insidehighered.com.
  13. ^ "Higher Education Career Advice". www.insidehighered.com.
  14. ^ "I Was a Teenage Fundamentalist - Nonfiction by Kevin Brown - Eclectica Magazine v12n4". www.eclectica.org.
  15. ^ "In Praise of the Rut - Nonfiction by Kevin Brown - Eclectica Magazine v13n3". www.eclectica.org.
  16. ^ "Why I Don't Write - Kevin Brown - Eclectica Magazine v7n4". www.eclectica.org.
  17. ^ "Songs, Poems, and Missing the Point Completely - Nonfiction by Kevin Brown - Eclectica Magazine v14n1". www.eclectica.org.
  18. ^ "<Brown-Kevin-Bookpage>". Archived from the original on June 17, 2012. Retrieved June 11, 2012.
  19. ^ "What Can They Do with an English Major: Showing Students the Breadth of the Discipline through the Introductory Course to the Discipline and Advising". Archived from the original on May 12, 2012. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
  20. ^ a b c "Lee University - Cleveland TN". Archived from the original on July 28, 2010. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  21. ^ "You searched for %22kevin brown%22".
  22. ^ "Kevin Brown, Author at SOLRAD".
  23. ^ "Soapberry Review".
  24. ^ a b "East Tennessee State University". www.etsu.edu.
  25. ^ TN, Streamline Technologies | Nashville. "Members | Official Site of East Tennessee State Athletics". ETSUBucs.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  26. ^ "National Bible Bowl - Welcome". Archived from the original on September 10, 2011. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
  27. ^ "Homepage - Milligan University". September 3, 2020. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
  28. ^ "Administration, Faculty and Staff - Lee University - Acalog ACMS™". catalog.leeuniversity.edu.
  29. ^ "Ensworth School | Private, Independent, Co-Ed, K-12 School in Nashville, TN".
  30. ^ http://www.leeuniversity.edu/newsEvents/newsDetails.aspx?Channel=%2fChannels%2fAll+Content&WorkflowItemID=59731946-5792-4f8b-b91f-8704dfe9cadf[dead link]
  31. ^ "News". Retrieved May 4, 2023.
  32. ^ "News". Archived from the original on August 4, 2012.
  33. ^ "News". Retrieved May 4, 2023.
  34. ^ "Snake~Nation~Press » Winners". Archived from the original on December 30, 2014.
  35. ^ "Spring Poetry Book Award Winner, 2014 | Quercus Review Press". quercusreviewpress.com. Archived from the original on December 5, 2014.
  36. ^ "iCloud".[dead link]
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