Rust or Go Missing
by Lily Brown ’99
Cleveland State University Poetry Center, November 2010
“Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, ‘I think the plastics / and sink them’ then ‘Where is the sand / man hiding the dirt.’ These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder.”
—Rae Armantrout
Lily Brown holds degrees from Harvard University and Saint Mary’s College of California. She has published poems in Denver Quarterly, Fence, Pleiades, 26, and
Tarpaulin Sky. Her chapbooks include Being One (Brave Men Press), The Renaissance Sheet (Octopus Books) and Old with You (Kitchen Press). She lives in Athens, Georgia, where she is a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia.