virtual artists collective poetry
Nathan Brown is a musician, photographer, and award-winning poet from Norman, Oklahoma. He holds a PhD in Creative and Professional Writing from the University of Oklahoma and teaches there as well. Mostly he travels now, though, performing readings and concerts as well as speaking and leading workshops in high schools, universities, and community organizations on creativity, creative writing, and the need for readers to not give up on poetry. He has published six books: My Sideways Heart (2010), Two Tables Over (2008)—Winner of the 2009 Oklahoma Book Award, Not Exactly Job (2007)—a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award, Ashes Over the Southwest (2005), Suffer the Little Voices (2005)—a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award, and Hobson’s Choice (2002). Just released in the spring of 2010, Nathan’s new album of all-original songs, Gypsy Moon, is his first musical project to come out in over a decade. His poems have appeared in World Literature Today, Concho River Review, Blue Rock Review, Sugar Mule, Di-verse-city (anthology of the Austin International Poetry Festival), Blood and Thunder, Wichita Falls Literature and Art Review, “Walt’s Corner” of The Long-Islander newspaper (a column started by Whitman in 1838); Windhover, Oklahoma Today Magazine, Byline Magazine, Christian Ethics Today, Crosstimbers, and Poetrybay.com as well as in the anthology Two Southwests (Virtual Artists Collective, Chicago).