Mark Sheffield Brown

MARK SHEFFIELD BROWN {[email protected]} is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program at Delta College. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Boise State University and a PhD in Film Studies from Wayne State University. He is a poet, book maker, and film reviewer. Mark lives in Midland, Michigan with his wife and three daughters.

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Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 4

Poetry is a kind of embodiment, a conjuring. Through writing, poets can materialize anything whether it’s a hammock in Pine Island, Minnesota or a red wheelbarrow glazed with rain. But in addition to creating wordy,…

Confession

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 2

The trees wear
copper-lit skin tonight.
Spread out and still in the cold,
they look like slender Kenyans
holding up thousands of hands,

Thousand Springs

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 2

It snowed yesterday for a moment
but it was an idea
that didn’t catch on —