Nathan Brown

Nathan Brown is an author, singer-songwriter, and award-winning poet who served as the Oklahoma Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2014.

Life Nathan Brown was born in Longview, Texas on March 16, 1965. His family moved to Norman, Oklahoma in January 1970, where he grew up and went to college. He was a professional musician in Nashville, Tennessee in his 20s and 30s. He now hails from Wimberley, with an emphasis in Creative and Professional Writing from the University of Oklahoma. After teaching at OU for almost twenty years, he returned to the Austin area to be closer to the music scene there and tours the country full-time as a poet, musician, and workshop leader. He has published 20 books, one of which (Two Tables Over) won the Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry, He is the founder of Mezcalita Press. Brown has taught many writing workshops, including writing family stories at the Moore Library, the Writers Workshop at Norman Public Library, and ekphrastic poetry at the Fred Jones Museum of Art, He was an artist-in-residence at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Awards Oklahoma Book Award for Two Tables Over (2009)

Works Books 100 Years (Mezcalita Press, 2019) An Honest Day's Confession (Mezcalita Press, 2018) An Honest Day's Prayer (Mezcalita Press, 2017) An Honest Day's Ode (Mezcalita Press, 2017) I Shouldn't Say... The Mostly Unedited Poems of Ezra E. Lipschitz (Mezcalita Press, 2017) Arse Poetica: The Mostly Unedited Poems of Ezra E. Lipschitz (Mezcalita Press, 2017) Apocalypse Soon: The Mostly Unedited Poems of Ezra E. Lipschitz (Mezcalita Press, 2017) Don't Try, a collection of co-written poems with Jon Dee Graham (Mezcalita Press, 2016) My Salvaged Heart: Story of a Cautious Courtship (Mezcalita Press, 2016) To Sing Hallucinated: First Thoughts on Last Words (Mezcalita Press, 2015) Less Is More, More or Less (Mezcalita Press, 2013) Karma Crisis:New and Selected Poems (Mezcalita Press, 2012) Letters to the One-Armed Poet: A Memoir of Friendship, Loss, and Butternut Squash Ravioli (Village Books Press, 2011) My Sideways Heart (Mongrel Empire Press, 2010) Two Tables Over (Village Books Press, 2008) Not Exactly Job (Mongrel Empire Press, 2007) Ashes over the Southwest (Greystone Press, 2005) Suffer the Little Voices (Greystone Press, 2005) Hobson's Choice (Greystone Press, 2002)

Anthologies

Editor Oklahoma Poems, and Their Poets Mezcalita Press. 2014.

Contributor Ain't Nobody That Can Sing Like Me: New Oklahoma Writing Mongrel Empire Press. 2010. Waco Cultural Arts Fest: WordFest Anthology 2017 CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 2017. The Working Man’s Hand: Celebrating Woody Guthrie Poems of Protest and Resistance Fine Dog Press. 2023.

Discography The Streets of San Miguel (2019) Gypsy Moon (2009) The Why in the Road Driftin' Away Fall What does this have to do with anything?