and in conversation with SoCal award-winning poet Patty Seyburn
In her collection of poems SEPTEMBER 12, published for the 20th anniversary of 9/11, ANDREA CARTER BROWN recounts her experience of the terrorist attacks from the initial shock to the haunting grief and loss that followed. On that morning, she was drinking coffee in her Lower Manhattan apartment. It was six months before her contaminated apartment was remediated, years before chronic health problems caused by dust and other toxins could be controlled, and her traumatic recollections of the attacks remain ever-present.
“Reading September 12 is a wrenching but restorative experience you won’t soon forget.” – Martha Collins, poet
Andrea Carter Brown is also the author of The Disheveled Bed (2006) and two chapbooks, Domestic Karma (2018) and Brook & Rainbow (Winner of the 2000 Sow's Ear Press Chapbook Award). Among others, she has won the Five Points James Dickey Prize, the River Styx International Poetry Prize, and the PSA Gustav Davidson Memorial Prize. Since 2017, she has been Series Editor of the Word Works Washington Prize.
Patty Seyburn has published five collections of poems, most recently Threshold Delivery (2019) and Perfecta (2014). She earned a BS and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern University, an MFA in Poetry from University of California, Irvine, and a Ph.D. in Poetry and Literature from the University of Houston. She is a professor at California State University, Long Beach.