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melvin e brown

Poet

  • about
  • selected works
    • Island Girl
    • The Earth Quakes in Nepal / The People Quake in Baltimore
    • Saturday Night Lover/Friend Blues
    • Dance-Walking on the Waters of Langston’s Rivers
    • The First Tree
  • books
  • places

places

Poets: Peter J. Harris, Avon J. Bellamy, Melvin E. Brown, Daki Napata, and Ralph E. Moore, Jr., photo by bbcloris

Melvin’s Poems Around The Web

New Day Poem

Root Song

A Smokey Slowdrag

Survival Motion: Notice

 

Videos

Ali Chant

A Poor Conversation with an Aspiring Junkie

 

Friends

ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes

Peter J. Harris

Ethelbert Miller

Afaa Michael Weaver

Chicory Magazine

We have a journey to take
and little time;
we have ships to name
and crews.

                    —Henry Dumas

Contact

To book a reading with Melvin, please email him at: melvinebrown@gmail.com

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