About Andrea Carter Brown
Andrea Carter Brown is the author of The Disheveled Bed and two chapbooks, Domestic Karma and Brook & Rainbow, winner of the 2001 Sow’s Ear Press Chapbook Prize. Poems from September 12 won the James Dickey Prize from Five Points, the River Styx International Poetry Prize, and the National Poet Hunt from The MacGuffin. They are cited in the Library of Congress Online Guide to the Poetry of 9/11 and have been featured at Split This Rock and on NPR. “American Fraktur” won the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Prize from Marsh Hawk Press. Formerly a Founding Editor of Barrow Street and Managing Editor of The Emily Dickinson Journal, she is currently Series Editor of The Word Works Washington Prize. An avid birder, she lives in Los Angeles, where she grows lemons, limes, oranges, and tangerines in her back yard.
Listen to Poems on Air
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Andrea Carter Brown’s poem “The Rock in the Glen.”
Praise for September 12
“In 2001, Andrea Carter Brown lived near the Twin Towers, and but for her sister’s anxious call on 9/11, she might have died there. As she powerfully chronicles in September 12, instead, she survived to tell the tale. An opening homage to the Hudson River School is entrancing. Then, BAM. Brown embarks on a harrowing narrative of life-altering survival, too shocked at first to feel but recording everything—including, unforgettably, the first view of the skyline with a ‘column of smoke’ where the Towers had been (“September 12”). This brave book documents great loss and trauma, but also hard-won psychic resilience in poems of astonishing beauty and wisdom. September 12 is necessary poetry.”
—Cynthia Hogue, author of In June the Labyrinth and Revenance
“There are moments in time that pull into themselves all that has gone before, and settle like dust, or micro-organisms, upon and within all that follows after. In Andrea Carter Brown’s September 12, detail by detail, we watch the process of innocence captured by absolutely unpredicted trauma, and how the experience lives on and on, through shock and terror, through the kindness of strangers, through the heart of a beloved, through grief and elegy, through normality that will never again be normal. Detail by detail. Moment by moment. Word by word.”
—Alicia Ostriker, author of The Volcano and After, Selected and New Poems, 2002-2019, New York State Poet Laureate
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