William Brown Poetry
About Me
Hey there. I'm William Brown, a poet who grew up in rural Georgia. I work as an editor for Gasher Press, earned my MFA in poetry from the University of Florida, and am currently finishing my PhD at Texas Tech University. I'm interested in analyzing poetry from rural spaces, as opposed to only "southern" spaces, to see what similarities and differences arise when looking at poets such as Les Murray writing out of Australia, Karen Solie out of Canada, BH Fairchild out of the Midwest, David Bottoms out of my home state, and more.
Selected Poetry Publications
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"Lubbock Storms" Atlanta Review (Spring 2024)
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5 Poems Tupelo Quarterly (April 2023)
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"Getting an Airbnb in Saigon" North Dakota Quarterly (October 2022)
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"McDonald's Aubade" The Minnesota Review (May 2022)
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"Braiding" (nominated for a Pushcart Prize) Perhappened (January 2022)
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"Late Spring" The Hopkins Review (Fall 2021)
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"The Ponte Delle Torri, Spoleto" The Madison Review (Summer 2021)
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"Erosion Control" American Journal of Poetry (Winter 2021)
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"Biting the Hook" Columbia Journal (Fall 2020)
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"Sea Glass" Freshwater Review (Spring 2020)
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"Ode to the Taco Bell Drive-Through Worker" Taco Bell Quarterly (Summer 2019)
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"Ode to My Hernia" Copper Nickel (Spring 2019)
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"My Mother's Bones" Crab Creek Review (Spring 2019)
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"Monarchs" & "Between Carrollton and Lubbock" McNeese Review (December 2018)
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"Drought of '04" Georgia's Best Emerging Poets (January 2017)
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"Rat Chapels" and "Dinosaur Bedsheets" Glass Mountain Volume 18 (Spring 2016)
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"New Year's 'Fuck You' Parade" & "The Matryoshka Doll" Eclectic (April 2016)
Contact Information
Thank you for checking out my website. For any inquiries, please feel free to contact me, and enjoy this self-portrait of myself from when I was three. As you can see, I haven't changed much.
(Will provide CV upon request)
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