Harry Brown
Since 1967 Harry Brown has published some three hundred and fifty poems in various magazines, including Southern Humanities Review, Poem, New Mexico Humanities Review, The University of Windsor Review, Roanoke Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, The Fiddlehead, Wind, Kansas Quarterly, Ball State University Forum, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, The Panhandler, Kentucky Poetry Review, The English Record, Green’s Magazine, Conradiana, Quartet, Long Pond Review, and Re: Artes Liberales; He has also published several reviews, essays and stories in various magazines, including handsel, Modern Poetry Studies, The Filson Club History Quarterly, and Green’s Magazine. In 1986 Kentucky Poetry Review gave the Blaine R. Hall Award for Brown’s poem “Felt Long the Blood–A Triptych,” and in 2002 Green’s Magazine awarded the Warren Keith Wright Prize for his poem “In Deed and Truth.”
The Edwin Mellen Press brought out in 1989 two collections of Brown’s poems--Paint Lick Idyll (Fwd. F. Chappell) and Measuring Man. Penkevill published in 1991 God’s Plenty: Modern Kentucky Writers, which he co-edited; and in 2001 Mellen brought out two more collections of his poetry–Ego’s Eye and Everything Is Its Opposite. In 2005 Wind Publications published Brown’s fifth collection of poetry, Felt Along the Blood–New and Selected Poems, edited with a Foreword by Steven R. Cope.
In 1994 Harry Brown was the first recipient of the Mary Anderson Senior Fellowship at the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, and he has been a Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. In 2007 Harry Brown received a Kentucky Arts Council Professional Assistance Award ($1000) for “continued professional development” in poetry writing.