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Kurt Brown

Kurt Brown is founder of the Aspen Writers' Conference, and Writers' Conferences & Centers (a national association of directors). His poems have appeared in many literary periodicals, and he is the editor of several anthologies including Blues for Bill, and (with Harold Schechter), Conversation Pieces: Poems that Talk to Other Poems. He is the author of six chapbooks and five full-length collections of poetry, including Return of the Prodigals, More Things in Heaven and Earth, Fables from the Ark, Future Ship, and a new collection, No Other Paradise, due out in 2010. A collection of the poems of Flemish poet Herman de Coninck entitled ,em>The Plural of Happiness, which he and his wife translated, was released in the Field Translation Series in 2006. He teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and was recently the McEver Visiting Chair in Writing at Georgia Tech and a visiting writer at Westminster College.