Lee Ann Brown
Lee Ann Brown is a poet based in New York City and North Carolina and is the author of over seven books of poetry and collaborations. She runs Tender Buttons Press, teaches at St. John’s University and curates poetry happenings at Torn Page.
Alice conjures book magic. As with bibliomancers of the past we open a book like the Bible or Virgil or Kabir to concentrate on a question or issue at random, then read the first passage that catches our eyes, especially during times of personal or societal crisis. We can do that with Alice.
Lee Ann Brown is the author of numerous poetry books including as Polyverse (Sun & Moon Press), The Sleep That Changed Everything(Wesleyan University Press), In the Laurels, Caught (Fence Books), Crowns of Charlotte (Carolina Wren Press), and Other Archer (CIMP), as well as numerous collaborative projects and performances such as Bagatelles for Cornell (Propolis Press) and an upcoming appearance as "The Vision" in a Torn Page parlor's Michael McClure's anti-war play Spider Rabbit. Critical and curatorial work includes editing Tender Buttons Press, which she talked about on Publishing-in-Transit: Tender Buttons Press: Editors and Writers in Conversation and co-editor of a book on Black Mountain College, Far from the Centers of Ambition (Lorimer Press), one of 32 poets writing Midwinter Constellation (Black Lawrence Press), and an essay on Carla Harryman in Laynie Browne's A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poets Novel (Nightboat).