Andrea Carter Brown and John Keats

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Andrea Carter Brown was born in Paterson, New Jersey. Her poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Mississippi Review, and many others. She is the author of September 12, which recently won the 2022 IPPY Silver Medal in Poetry from the Independent Publishers Group. Her other titles include the The Disheveled Bed, Domestic Karma, and Brook & Rainbow. Her poems have won the Five Points James Dickey Prize, the River Styx International Poetry Prize, and the PSA Gustav Davidson Memorial Prize. She was a founding editor of the poetry journal Barrow Street, and, since 2017, she has been Series Editor of The Word Works Washington Prize.

John Keats, one of the greatest of the Romantic Poets, was born October 31, 1795 in London. He published just three volumes before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25. Some of his poems are among the most anthologized in the 20th Century, including “To Autumn,” “Ode to a Nightingale,” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”

Links:

Read “After the Disaster: Fragments,” “Ars Poetica,” “To the Dust,” and other poems at andrea carterbrown.com

Read "When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be" by John Keats

Andrea Carter Brown

“An Interview with Andrea Carter Brown"

September 12 book launch

Brown’s poem "The Rock in the Glen” featured in an episode of Poems on Air

“Poet Mary Mackey Interviews Poet Andrea Carter Brown”

John Keats

Bio and poems at Poets.org

Bio and articles on John Keats at the British Library

“The Cockney Romantics: John Keats and His Friends,” a lecture by Johnathan Bate

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