Aaron Brown lives with his wife, Melinda, in Kansas, where he is an Assistant Professor of Writing & Editing at Sterling College. He has been anthologized in Best New African Poets and has received Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. His poetry and prose have been published in World Literature Today , Tupelo Quarterly, The Millions, Cimarron Review, Portland Review, Ruminate, and Transition, among others. A collection of poetry, Acacia Road, is the winner of the 2016 Gerald Cable Book Award and is forthcoming from Silverfish Review Press. He is also the author of the poetry chapbook Winnower and novella Bound, both published by Wipf & Stock. Brown holds an MFA from the University of Maryland.

Books by Aaron Brown:

Other poems on the web by Aaron Brown:
"Broken oud"
"Batha Rivere"
"Old Man Watching Dunkirk"
Two poems

Aaron Brown's Website.

About Acacia Road:

"Acacia Road is a vivid, brilliant, and haunting memory palace, evoking Aaron Brown's childhood spent in Chad on the cusp of its civil war, and while at times the "second space" of recollection, seems idyllic, the sound of shelling and gunfire, and news of human violence is never far away."
—Michael Collier

"These poems proceed by an earnest story-telling and remembering. And while the surfaces of the poems are characterized by skillful narrative and descriptive impulses, underpinning most of them runs a deeper agon and self-critique, uncovering both a fear of and a relentless thirst for the ecstatic. These poems embody, at their best, that thirst."
—Li-Young Lee