Nathan Brown (poet)

Nathan Brown

Brown in 2013
Occupation Poet, Author, Singer-Songwriter
Notable awards 2009 Oklahoma Book Award
Website
www.brownlines.com

Nathan Brown is an author, singer-songwriter, and award-winning poet who served as the Oklahoma Poet Laureate[1] from 2013 to 2014. He now hails from Wimberley, Texas, a small town in the Hill Country, just outside Austin.

Though born in Longview, Texas in 1965, his family moved to Norman, Oklahoma in January of 1970, where he grew up and lived most of his life. He has always considered Norman his hometown, and Oklahoma his home state.

Brown's main artistic focus is, and has long been, poetry. However, from his early teens to his late twenties, songwriting and music performance were what he was known for. As a musician, he has performed at the famous Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, as well as other well known venues like the Mucky Duck in Houston, the Cactus Cafe in Austin, and the Blue Door in Oklahoma City. But after a stint as a professional songwriter in Nashville, he burned out. He appreciated the town, but says that the music machine, as an industry, destroyed his love for music. He left Nashville and came back home where he enrolled in a creative writing course at the University of Oklahoma. This is when a spark from a favorite professor, George Economou, lit the fire of poetry in Brown. And, so far, he has never looked back.

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References

  1. ↑ "Nathan Brown Appointed Oklahoma Poet Laureate | Oklahoma Humanities Council". Okhumanities.org. 2012-12-18. Retrieved 2014-01-29.

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