Derrick Brown GE Theatre at Proctors

When: Thu, Oct 17, 2013 | 7:30 PM

Where: GE Theatre at Proctors

Cost: $20

You are a Sunday porch I could do nothing on
and feel like everything was happening. ~ Derrick Brown

Be mesmerized by the strange comedy and dark romance of spoken word with Derrick Brown, one of America’s most beloved and well-travelled performing poets. Brown has performed his poetry on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, as well as for the Best American Contemporary Poetry Concert series, The Drums Inside Your Chest. Last year, he curated the wildly successful literature festival Word x Word in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Brown is a former weatherman and gondolier. He is currently the founder of Write Bloody Publishing, an independent book publisher in Austin, TX. Write Bloody’s concept is that poets should tour and promote themselves like rock bands, and that the publisher should be the source of energy for the revitalization of live poetry in America.

"HE IS PROBABLY ONE OF AMERICA’S GREATEST UNKNOWN LITERARY TALENTS. DERRICK HAS BLOWN HONESTY AND HUMOR INTO THE DARKNESS AND HAS SOMEHOW MADE POETRY COOL AGAIN." - Nylon Magazine

Ticket Price: $20