Derrick Weston Brown
POET, AUTHOR & EDUCATOR
Biography
Poetry
Click the following links to read published poems by Derrick Weston-Brown:
New Anthology Release!! Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African-American Poetry
ed. by Joanne V. Gabbin, Lauren K Alleyne with Foreword by Rita Dove. Northwestern University Press 2019
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed, and Tracy K. Smith, with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Meta DuEwa Jones, and Evie Shockley. The Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation’s first academic center for Black poetry. In this eponymous collection, editors Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne bring together many of the paramount voices in Black poetry and poetics active today, composing an electrifying mosaic of voices, generations, and aesthetics that reveals the Black narrative in the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers. Intellectually enlightening and powerfully enlivening, Furious Flower explores and celebrates the idea of the Black poetic voice by posing the question, What’s next for Black poetic expression?
Floodgates Poetry Series Vol.5 "On All Fronts
These poems are replete with originality (remember saxophonist Lester Young's artistic credo "You got to be original, man!") technical and emotional range, and--most importantly--feeling. They entrance the reader; and they make you rethink the world around (and inside) you. Read and re-read and re-read these poems. And recite them out loud. because they are also as musical as a kiss. Lucky us, world. Lucky us. --Reuben Jackson, poet and author of Fingering The Keys
Wisdom Teeth
by Derrick Weston Brown
To consider Wisdom Teeth is to acknowledge inevitable movement, shift, and sometimes pain. There’s change hidden just below the surface and, like it or not, once it breaks, everything has to make room. So goes the aptly titled debut poetry collection from poet and educator Derrick Weston Brown. Wisdom Teeth reveals the ongoing internal and external reconstruction of a poet's life and world, as told through a litany of forms and myriad of voices, some the poet’s own.
Wisdom Teeth is a questioning work, a redefining of personal relationships, masculinity, race, and history. It’s a readjustment of bite, humor, and perspective as Brown channels hip-hop, Toni Morrison, and Snagglepuss to make way for the shudder and eruption of wisdom.
To consider Wisdom Teeth is to acknowledge inevitable movement, shift, and sometimes pain. There’s change hidden just below the surface and, like it or not, once it breaks, everything has to make room. So goes the aptly titled debut poetry collection from poet and educator Derrick Weston Brown. Wisdom Teeth reveals the ongoing internal and external reconstruction of a poet's life and world, as told through a litany of forms and myriad of voices, some the poet’s own.
Wisdom Teeth is a questioning work, a redefining of personal relationships, masculinity, race, and history. It’s a readjustment of bite, humor, and perspective as Brown channels hip-hop, Toni Morrison, and Snagglepuss to make way for the shudder and eruption of wisdom.
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Events
Feb 21, 2020
Friday February 21, 2020 6pm-9pm Rooms 303 & 304: Presented by Rev. Dr. Grainger Browning Jr. Sr. Pastor , Rev. Dr. Jo Ann Browning, Co-Pastor & Sistah Joy Alford, Poetry Ministry President
Featured Poet for "African -Americans & The Vote" a Black History Month 2020 Celebration: The Ebeneezer A. m. E. Church Poetry Ministry: Additional featured artists: The Annointed P.E.N.S. , The Psalmists of Solomon, The Malcolm X Drummers & Dancers ,
Ebeneezer A.M.E. Church 7707 Allentown Rd Fort Washington MD 20745
Feb 24, 2020
Date: Monday, February 24, 2020 Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm Location: Martha Washington Meeting Room 104A , Martha Washington Meeting Room 104B Library Branch: Martha Washington Library
Featured poet at the "Hear at Martha's" reading series at the Martha Washington Community Library with fellow writers: Melanie Figg, Tara Campbell, Yvette Neisser. Hosted by Plan B press publisher, Steven Allenmay
Local poets Melanie Figg, Tara Campbell, Yvette Neisser and Derrick Weston Brown will read and discuss their work. Adults and teens.
Apr 17, 2020
New Leaves writers' conference at Mason, is a spring mini-conference hosted by the MFA in creative writing program and sponsored by the Fall for the Book festival. Events include published writer panel discussions, presentations from Literary agents, and readings from national and local critically acclaimed writers
Featured panelist at George Mason University's (Fairfax Campus) "New Leaves Writers Conference" discussing "How Literary Artists Put Their Work to Work for Themselves"
The New Leaves writers' conference at Mason is a spring mini-conference hosted by the MFA in creative writing program and sponsored by the Fall for the Book festival. Events include published writer panel discussions, presentations from Literary agents, and readings from nationally and locally critically acclaimed writers.
Dec 12, 2020
AUGUST 22, 2020–JANUARY 10, 2021 Anastacia-Reneé: (Don’t be Absurd) Alice in Parts Combining poetry, assemblage, and video, this immersive installation by multi-genre writer and performer Anastacia-Reneé offers a rageful meditation on the gentrification of the black body, black neighborhoods, and blackness itself as seen through the eyes of her complicated and humorous character “Alice.”
Guest/Visiting poet participating in the poetry reading portion of (Don't Be Absurd) Alice in Parts, an interactive arts installation exhibit by writer, artist & former Seattle Civic poet Anastacia-Renee
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