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Stephen Ford Brown
His own creative work, including essays, interviews, poetry and translations, have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Harvard Review, Poetry, Rolling Stone, Jacket, Verse, and on the BBC Radio UK. He is a translator of Spanish poetry and his translated work includes books by Ángel González (Spain), Nicomedes Suarez Arauz (Bolivia), Jorge Carrera Andrade (Ecuador), Pere Gimferrer (Spain) and Pablo de Rokha (Chile). He co-edited Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry with David Rigsbee, which was selected as one of the "Best of the Best from the University Presses" by C-SPAN's "Book TV" for the year 2003. He edited two special issues of The Atlanta Review on poetry in Latin America and Spain (the Spanish issue also included poets from Basque Country, Castillia, Catalonia and Galacia). He served as Director of Research for the George Plimpton interview series, The Writer in Society, which appeared on the PBS affiliate in Houston and featured interviews with Maya Angelou, John Barth, and Donald Barthleme. His own research for the series was on Barthleme. His translations and other publications have been supported with grants from the Spanish Cultural Ministry (Madrid, Spain), the National Endowment for the Arts, the Linn-Henley Charitable Trust, the Swedish Embassy in New York City, and the Texas Commission for the Arts. The Birmingham Festival of Arts awarded him the Silver Bowl for his contributions to the literary arts community in Birmingham, Alabama. He currently lives in the Boston area while frequently traveling to Europe. He was recently in residence at the Swedish Writers Union in Stockholm. He is a staff writer for Boston Music Spotlight and writes features on the history of the Boston-Cambridge folk and rock music scene dating back to the 1950s.
Books by Stephen Ford Brown Astonishing World: The Selected Poems of Angel Gonzalez, 1956-1986 (1993)
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Steven Ford Brown is a music critic, publisher and translator in Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Houston, and Harvard University's Extension School. He moved to Boston and for almost a decade worked in the European Equities Department of a private investment firm in Boston's Financial District. He resigned his position in January of 2006 to travel in Europe and pursue a career as a music critic and journalist. 