Books by Derrick Brown

In the forgotten town of Andersonville, the Adventure Sisters find themselves faced with the mysterious and creepy stone owl that comes alive at night to frighten away all the birds.Determined to solve the mystery and bring peace back to the town, the Sisters decide to work together and devise a plan.The sisters encounter numerous challenges and obstacles that put their teamwork and courage to the test. Along the way, they learn to overcome their individual fears and insecurities, realizing that only by supporting each other can they hope to scare off the stone owl.Through their trials and tribulations, the Adventure Sisters develop a stronger bond and understanding of one another. As they work together, they unlock hidden strengths and talents within themselves and discover the power of friendship and cooperation.Written by Derrick C. BrownStory by John AndersonIllustrated by Mark Hill

An amazing adventure series. Valentine is a porcupine that lives in a boring town. The townsfolk think she dances too much. She dresses weird. Her boombox has skulls on it...yuck! Valentine learns that it is great to be different and discovers how to make friends.

Derrick C. Brown is a comedian, poet and storyteller. He is the winner of the 2013 Texas Book of The Year award for Poetry. He is a former Paratrooper for the 82nd Airborne and is the president of one of what Forbes and Filter Magazine call "...one of the best independent poetry presses in the country," Love is the only war with dying for. This collection contains all new work from All The Energies of Death and the best works from Derrick's previous works: Born in the Year of the Butterfly Knife, Scandalabra, Strange Light, Our Poison Horse, and I Love You is Back.

Our Poison Horse is the newest poetry collection released by Derrick C. Brown. Brown is the winner of the Texas Book of The Year Prize, 2013. The New York Times calls his work a "...rekindling of the faith in the shocking, weird and beautiful power of words." Brown finally sold the ship, The Sea Section, upon which he lived for years in the Long Beach harbor, after which he took to hunting for a city that was affordable and had a bustling writer's community. He landed in Austin, Texas and when the progress of that town got to be intense, he moved to the nearby countryside in Elgin, Texas, and from that pastoral setting came unfurling this new collection of his most personal work to date.Brown has been known as one of the most touring, well travelled living poets in America. He has based his whole writing career on changing peoples minds about poetry and he feels a quality, unforgettable live experience can achieve that.Brown told himself he needed a 10-year hiatus from writing poetry when he felt the well of creativity had dried up. 2 years ago, he wrote a one-hour long 'poetic play' called Strange Light, commissioned by The Noord Nederlands Dans Group in Holland. The piece was performed by 14 dancers and accompanied by a live orchestra using music composed by fellow Americans, Emily Wells and Timmy Straw. While he was working on a new libretto for Wayne State University in Detroit, he was set up in a seemingly pastoral country setting, where, as Brown says, "an incredible war broke out inside and out, such bright, massive storms, snakes, guns, howling wind, hard sun: all kinds of poems gushed forth. I gave in to the process and my best work to date was born, this will be my 5th book." Our Poison Horse touches on more autobiography than the romantic and fantastical that was so present in his past work. In Derrick Brown's words:"I found a poetry in the real events that shaped or broke me. Every morning, I would quiet down, stare out into the field where we were watching our neighbors horse, a horse that was poisoned with pesticide by some local boys, a horse with massive scars all down its body from it's skin peeling from the poison sprayed upon it maliciously by some bastard kids. I watched the horse heal and finally come to me, and trust me and eat carrots. Something about that horse, Lacey, about it not trusting me and then warming up pulled something out of me that I didn't know I was ready for. There is a theme that in beautiful places, you will also find horror, and gratefully, the reverse is true."

This book contains poetry from a team of wildly unique, talented and award-winning authors who have been touring the world for years.Derrick Brown, Anis Mojgani, Buddy Wakefield, Robbie Q, Sonya Renee, Andrea Gibson, and Cristin O'keefe Aptowicz have united. Charging the hearts of America with gut-splitting, lust wrangling, socially active verse.

Hello teachers! We know you work hard. Besides ninjas, you have the hardest job in the world. Between the teaching, the testing, the grading, and the nurturing it's difficult to seek out new materials for your classroom. We are here to help. As slam poets and teachers, we know the power of the spoken word in the classroom. All you have to do is attend a youth slam or find a clip of one online and you will see the positive impact it has on our young people. It is able to engage kids from any background in a way that classical poetry simply cannot touch. A complaint we've heard from many teachers is that they would love to use spoken word in their classrooms but they are afraid of getting in trouble. A bulk of spoken word poetry does have quite a few curses. After all, those poems were meant to be read to a rowdy crowd of adults at a slam and not a class full of kids. The poems come from the gut and sometimes an "F" bomb finds its way to the page. Unfortunately, this is what holds many teachers back from using spoken word in their classes. So behold! We asked some of the best contemporary spoken word and slam poets to give us poems that would be appropriate for the classroom. This means you will not have to sift through this book with a highlighter to try and find the F's and the S's and the B's. We've provided poems from national slam champs, world slam champs, fellow teachers, and poets we feel are the best of what's around. We've also included some lessons. Some of these lessons have been tested out in the classroom, some not. Feel free to use these lessons as you see fit. Every teacher has their own style so please, do not feel like you have to use the lessons verbatim. Simplify, expand, modify, do whatever you need to do. You know your class so teach the poems the way that suits them best. The most important part is the poetry. Learn then Burn,Tim Stafford and Derrick Brown

The book was specifically written to open America's eyes to the problems we have created for ourselves. As in most cases you usually don't know there's a problem until someone points it out, and that is the job of this book. We like to talk about these problems but no one ever wants to do anything to resolve the problem. This book takes a look at the issues including politics, corporate America, education, and the fallout from Hurricane Katrina, just to name a few. We have come to a time in history where each individual is only concerned about his/her well being. "If it isn't a situation that directly affects me, then I'm not concerned", that's how we think in today's age. The purpose of this book is to remind everyone that, if you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem!!