Steven Ford Brown

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Steven Ford Brown is a rock music critic, poet, publisher and translator in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Brown grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Houston and Harvard University's Extension School. For almost a decade he worked in the European Equities Department of a private investment firm in Boston's Financial District. He resigned his position in January of 2006 to pursue a career as a blogger (http://musicforipods.blogspot.com/) independent writer, journalist amd radio DJ for Exploit Radio Boston.

As a rock critic and journalist he was among the first to champion Buckingham Nicks, the debut album of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks (who later joined Fleetwood Mac). Following a successful turn as a reviewer of over 100 albums, Brown turned to writing and publishing.

Brown's essays, interviews, poetry and translations have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Harvard Review, Poetry, Rolling Stone, Jacket, and Verse. In 1988 his Ford-Brown & Company released Heart's Invention: On the Poetry of Vassar Miller, edited by Brown with an introduction by Larry McMurtry. Over a twenty year period, his publishing house also published books by Mark Doty, Enrique Anderson Imbert, Carolyn Kizer, Dave Smith, Georg Trakl, Tomas Transtromer, Paul Zimmer.

Brown is also a translator of Spanish poems. His translations include Angel Gonzalez' Astonishing World, Nicomedes Suarez Arauz' Edible Amazonia, Jorge Carrera Andrade's Century of the Death of the Rose and Microgramas, and Juan Carlos Galeano's Amazonia. He has also edited a book of poems by John Beecher and co-edited Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry with David Rigsbee, which was selected as one of the "Best of the Best from the University Presses" by C-SPAN's "Book TV". He has also edited two special issues of the Atlanta Review on Latin-American poetry. He has been active with the website Foetry.com in criticising the incestousness of the American MFA literary programs and corruption in literary contests, particularly the University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series, University of Iowa literary Contests and University of North Texas Vassar Miller Prize contest.

His translations and other publications have been supported by the Spanish Cultural Ministry, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Linn-Henley Charitable Trust, the Swedish Embassy in New York City and the Texas Commission for the Arts. The Birmimgham Festival of Arts awarded him the Silver Bowl for his contributions to the arts of Birmingham, Alabama.

He currently lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, while frequently traveling in Europe, particularly Amsterdam, Barcelona and Stockholm. He is also involved with Exploit Boston Radio, an internet radio program devoted to the comtemporary rock music scene in Boston and Cambridge. While much of the music at Exploit Boston Radio is from newer bands, Brown programs music by music veterans who were active in the Boston- Cambridge folk era (Joan Baez, Mimi and Richard Farina, Carolyn Hester, Taj Mahal, Tom Rush, Buffy St. Marie, Eric Von Schmidt, Pete Seeger) and the Boston rock era through the 1980s (Aerosmith, Blake Babies, Juliana Hatfield, Robin Lane, The Lyres, Mission of Burma, Modern Lovers, Pixies, The Remains, Til Tuesday). He is currently writing a book about the history of the Boston music scene.

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"Amazonia", prose poems by Juan Carlos Galeano (as translator), forthcoming
"Microgramas", Jorge Carrera Andrade (as translator), Pais secreto: Quito, 2005
"One More River To Cross: The Selected Poems of John Beecher", preface by Studs Terkel (as editor) New South Books, 2003
"Century of The Death of The Rose: The Selected Poems of Jorge Carrera Andrade" (as translator). New South Books, 2002
"Edible Amazonia: Twenty poems from God's Amazonian Recipe Book", Nicomedes Suarez Arauz (as translator) Bitter Oleander Press, 2002
"Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry" (as editor with David Rigsbee), University of Virginia Press, 2001
"Astonishing World: The Selected Poems of Angel Gonzalez" (as translator), Milkweed Editions, 1993
"Heart’s Invention: On The Poetry Of Vassar Miller", introduction by Larry McMurtry (as editor), Ford-Brown & Co., Publishers, 1988

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NAME	Brown, Steven Ford
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SHORT DESCRIPTION	literary figure
DATE OF BIRTH	1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Florence, Alabama, United States of America
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH