Fleda Brown is Poet Laureate of Delaware and the author of five books of poems, most recently The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives, published by Carnegie-Mellon Uniersity Press.

Other poems by Fleda Brown in Verse Daily:
August 3, 2005:   "The Death of Cleone "Of course she mistook..."
September 20, 2004:  "Indian River Inlet" "March: nothing here but a blank Tinkertoy city of docks..."
August 20, 2003:  "Water Rising" "When the polar ice caps melt..."

About Crab Orchard Review:
Poets in this issue: Kelli Russell Agodon, Liz Ahl, Dilruba Ahmed, Maggie Anderson, Julianna Baggott, Robin Behn, Denise Bergman, Eleanor Berry, Remica L. Bingham, S. Beth Bishop, Fleada Brown, Stacey Lynn Brown, Anthony Butts, Kevin Coval, Melissa Frederick, Nola Garrett, Susan Grimm, Cindy Williams Gutierrez, Diane Holland, Kevin Honold, Annemarie Kattan Jacir, Roy Jacobstein, Lesley Jenike, Sandra Kohler, Aviya Kushner, Melissa Kwasny, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Jeanne Larsen, Ed Bok Lee, Stephanie Lenox, Barbara Leon, Timothy Liu, Dawn Lonsinger, Raymond Luczak, Susan Ludvigson, Peter Marcus, Frank Matagrano, Jeffrey McDaniel, Shannon Marquez McGuire, Erika Meitner, Joseph Millar, Jonathan Moody, Carolyn Moore, Deborah Moreno, John Morgan, Arlene Naganawa, Lee Newton, Sharon Olson, Ed Pavlic, Candace Pearson, Cynthia Reeves, Cherene Sherrard, Beth Simon, Susan Sink, Alison Townsend, Brian Turner, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck, Davi Walders, Michael Waters, Stefi Weisburd, Gary J. Whitehead