{"id":860,"date":"2017-08-08T09:50:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=860"},"modified":"2017-08-08T09:57:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:57:39","slug":"brown-steven-ford-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"BROWN, STEVEN FORD, 1952-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer, translator, editor, publisher. Born&#8211; September 11, 1952, Florence. Parents&#8211; Ford M. and Gloria P. Brown. Education&#8211; University of Alabama in Birmingham; University of Houston Graduate School; Harvard Extension School. \u00a0Served as a writer-in-residence for Birmingham City middle schools and at the Living Learning Center at Indiana University. Director of Old Town Music Hall Music\/Reading series on Morris Avenue in Birmingham. Founder of Thunder City Press; editor and publisher of the Thunder Mountain Review. Contributed articles to Rolling Stone, the Mid-Atlantic Review, and Washington Book Review. Translated Spanish and Latin American authors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poet &amp; Writer, 1977, and Steven Ford Brown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Against the Old Propellers of the Twilight. Atlanta; Stone Gargoyle, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Apples That Are Mirrors, Mirrors That Are Apples. Huntington Beach, Calif; Burning Wind Press, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Coast To Coast Monuments; Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Man Alone Publications, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Erotic Mask; 18 Prose Poems. Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.; Lunchroom Press, 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Growing Flowers By Candlelight in Hotel Rooms. Birmingham, Ala.; Man Alone Publications, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Learning To Live Without You; Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Man Alone Publications, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>A New Beginning; Poems. Steele, Ala.; Transcend, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Notes From the Unconscious. Fairbury, Neb.; Southeast Community College, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Songs of the Last Light; Eleven Prose Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Thunder City Press, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Song of The Last Light; Eleven Prose Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Man Alone Publications, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Song of the Last Light; Five Prose Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Thunder City Press, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Thunder City Poems, 1975-76. Birmingham, Ala.; Thunder City Press, 1976.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Literature in Birmingham; an Anthology. Birmingham, Ala.; Thunder City Press\/Birmingham Public Library, 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Heart&#8217;s Invention; On The Poetry of Vassar Millen. Houston; Ford-Brown and Co., 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Invited Guest:\u00a0 An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry.\u00a0 Charlottesville:\u00a0 University Press of Virginia, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>One More River to Cross:\u00a0 The Selected Poetry of John Beecher.\u00a0 Montgomery:\u00a0 New South Books, 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer, translator, editor, publisher. Born&#8211; September 11, 1952, Florence. Parents&#8211; Ford M. and Gloria P. Brown. Education&#8211; University of Alabama in Birmingham; University of Houston Graduate School; Harvard Extension School. \u00a0Served as a writer-in-residence for Birmingham City middle schools and at the Living Learning Center at Indiana University. 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