Kurt Brown founded the Aspen Writers' Conference, and Writers' Conferences & Centers (a national association of directors). He is the editor of several anthologies including Blues for Bill, for the late William Matthews, from the University of Akron Press and his newest (with Harold Schechter), Conversation Pieces: Poems that Talk to Other Poems from Alfred A Knopf, Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series. He is the author of six chapbooks and five full-length collections of poetry, and new collection, No Other Paradise is due out in 2008 from Red Hen Press. He teaches poetry workshops and craft classes at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.

Other poems by Kurt Brown in Verse Daily:
June 24, 2004:  "Pigeon in the Silo" "I bring news / coos, coos the pigeon...."

Books by Kurt Brown: Future Ship, Sincerest Flatteries: A Little Book of Imitations, Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems, The Plural of Happiness: Selected Poems of Herman De Coninck, Blues for Bill: A Tribute to William Matthews, Fables From The Ark, More Things in Heaven and Earth, The Measured Word: On Poetry and Science, Mammal News, Return of the Prodigals, Verse & Universe: Poems About Science and Mathematics, Night Out: Poems About Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars, Recension of the Biblical Watchdog, Facing the Lion, Writing it Down for James, The True Subject: Writers on Life and Craft,

Other poems on the web by Kurt Brown:
Two poems
"The Good Devil"
"Banana Knife"

About Redivider:
Poets in this issue: Sarah Green, Zachary Schomburg, Billy Collins, Todd Boss, Bob Watts, Claudia Emerson, Juan Martinez, Erika Meitner, Kevin McFadden, Jason Bredle, Jeffrey Bean, Mia Nussbaum, Paul Muldoon, Richard Jordan, Kurt Brown, Peter Waldor, Tim Lockridge