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Fleda Brown’s new book is Driving With Dvořák, released in March by the University of Nebraska Press. Her most recent collection of poems, Reunion (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007), won the Felix Pollak Prize. The author of five previous collections of poems, she has won numerous prizes, among them a Pushcart Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer’s Award, and her work has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She is professor emerita at the University of Delaware, where she taught for 27 years and directed the Poets in the Schools program. She was poet laureate of Delaware from 2001-07. She now lives in Traverse City, Michigan, and is on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program in Tacoma, Washington.

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  • Driving with Dvorak
  • Reunion
  • The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives
  • Breathing In Breathing Out
  • Devil's Child
  • Do Not Peel the Birches
  • Fishing with Blood
  • On the Mason-Dixon Line