English prof receives prestigious recognition

Fleda Brown

Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner introduced Fleda Brown, English, as Delaware’s new poet laureate Oct. 26, at the Delaware Division of the Arts’ fourth biennial Statewide Arts Summit in Dover.

In her introductory remarks, Minner noted that, as poet laureate, Brown will be the state’s poetry advocate and that by discussing poetry with Delaware students, the UD professor will promoting poetry and creativity and the importance of reading. Brown is the state’s 12th recipient of the poet laureate.

A UD faculty member since 1979, Brown received the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Awards for her first book of poetry, Fishing with Blood, and has been nominated five times for the Pushcart Prize for best poems in magazines and journals.

Her other works include Edward Hopper’s Woman (1981), Rabbits (1986), Arch (1987), The Location of Fleda Phillips Brown (1989), The Farthest-North Southern Town (1991) and Southern Man Like Elvis (1999).