Lee Ann Brown & Abigail Child December 12, 2007

Lee Ann Brown teaches poetry at St. John's University's Queens and Manhattan campuses. Her books include Polyverse (Sun & Moon Press), The Sleep That Changed Everything (Wesleyan University Press) and Nascent Toolbox (with Laynie Browne) from The Owl Press. She is the author of a song cycle, “The Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time”, a live performance of which is available for download from PennSound. She has been awarded poetry fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Howard Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She divides her time between NYC and NC where she, together with Tony Torn, is starting an as-yet-unnamed multidisciplinary performance space in Marshall, NC. Abigail Child is the author of five books of poetry, among them A Motive for Mayhem and Scatter Matrix as well as a book of critical writing: THIS IS CALLED MOVING: A Critical Poetics of Film. An award-winning filmmaker as well as a writer, Child pushes the envelope of sound-image and text-image relations with humor, liveliness and complex montage. She teaches in Boston, and calls NYC her home.

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