September 14, 2024 

Business Meeting:  10 a.m.

Program: 10:30 a.m.    The Well, 210 South James Garner Avenue  

Speaker: Nathan Brown

Nathan Brown is an author, songwriter, and award-winning poet who doesn’t live anywhere in particular. He holds a PhD in English and Journalism from the University of Oklahoma. He served as Poet Laureate for the State of Oklahoma in 2013/14 and travels fulltime performing readings, concerts, workshops and speaking on creativity, poetry, and songwriting.

During his Galaxy ‘Snapshot Memoir’ presentation, he will talk about how to write stories in segments and snapshots, timelines, and vignettes.

Nathan has published published more than 25 books. Most recent is his new memoir, The Broken Summer: The Birth of a Vagabond – Book 1, and a new travel memoir Just Another Honeymoon in France: A Vagabond at Large. Karma Crisis. New and Selected Poems, was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and the OklahomaBook Award.     

His earlier book, Two Tables Over, won the Oklahoma Book Award. His latest album of all original songs, The Streets of San Miguel, features Paul Simon’s accordionist, Joel Guzman and international fiddle champion, Warren Hood.

 He’s taught songwriting, memoir, poetry, and performance workshops from Tuscany and Ireland to the Sisters Folk Festival in Oregon, the Taos Poetry Festival, the Woody Guthrie Festival, Laity Lodge, the Everwood Farmstead Foundation in Wisconsin, as well as for Blue Rock Artist Ranch near Austin, Texas.

    

His online live video series The Fire Pit Sessions—inspired by the Pandemic Poems Project—has had more than 80,000 views. At almost 300 episodes now, Nathan reads a few poems from the project and performs a song at the end.