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Lee Ann Brown Interview
Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired 10/29/07
Lee Ann Brown talks about her Southern roots as an impetus for her deformative ballads and her buoyant advocacy of poems in many forms. She also discusses the relation of motherhood to art making. Brown in the author of Polyverse (Sun & Moon Press, 1999) and The Sleep that Changed Everything (Wesleyan University Press, 2003). She teaches at St John's University in New York City.
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