Biography:

Writer, translator, editor, publisher. Born– September 11, 1952, Florence. Parents– Ford M. and Gloria P. Brown. Education– University of Alabama in Birmingham; University of Houston Graduate School; Harvard Extension School.  Served 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.

Source:

Poet & Writer, 1977, and Steven Ford Brown.

Publication(s):

Against the Old Propellers of the Twilight. Atlanta; Stone Gargoyle, 1977.

Apples That Are Mirrors, Mirrors That Are Apples. Huntington Beach, Calif; Burning Wind Press, 1979.

Coast To Coast Monuments; Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Man Alone Publications, 1972.

Erotic Mask; 18 Prose Poems. Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.; Lunchroom Press, 1983.

Growing Flowers By Candlelight in Hotel Rooms. Birmingham, Ala.; Man Alone Publications, 1972.

Learning To Live Without You; Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Man Alone Publications, 1972.

A New Beginning; Poems. Steele, Ala.; Transcend, 1973.

Notes From the Unconscious. Fairbury, Neb.; Southeast Community College, 1981.

Songs of the Last Light; Eleven Prose Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Thunder City Press, 1979.

Song of The Last Light; Eleven Prose Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Man Alone Publications, 1972.

Song of the Last Light; Five Prose Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Thunder City Press, 1977.

Thunder City Poems, 1975-76. Birmingham, Ala.; Thunder City Press, 1976.

Editor:

Contemporary Literature in Birmingham; an Anthology. Birmingham, Ala.; Thunder City Press/Birmingham Public Library, 1983.

Heart’s Invention; On The Poetry of Vassar Millen. Houston; Ford-Brown and Co., 1988.

Invited Guest:  An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry.  Charlottesville:  University Press of Virginia, 2001.

One More River to Cross:  The Selected Poetry of John Beecher.  Montgomery:  New South Books, 2003.