The Poetry of Derrick Brown

Im a comin to Austin!

dbrown — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:23:20 +0000

I will be doing two fun shows and looking for a place to live, a 2 bedroom home.

April 24 at the austin slam

April 25 at five things austin

In the meantime, watch emily wells (we did strange light together) and dan the automator’s new project: PILLOWFIGHT

We Did It!

dbrown — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:38:14 +0000

We flower bombed the heck out of kathy’s room after her surgery. We loaded her with gift cards for her favorite places, raising over $1,600.00.

We went to the Orange County flower market and saved a ton of money on flowers and vases so we will be sending her flowers throughout her chemo for the next few months too, along with notes of encouragement from you all. Thank you so much to all her friends and strangers moved by this lame ass cancer, and the sweetness of Kathy. We will keep the donation window open until April 15 for those of you who want to send her a note as well as a few fresh flowers during the months of chemo. We were all moved by the many donations and can’t thank you enough for caring about our friend. Special thanks to the Lewis’ and JB for helping me pull this off.

promo strangelight

dbrown — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:47:46 +0000

STRANGE LIGHT HITS VANCOUVER

dbrown — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:43:31 +0000

‘Strange Light,’ is Brown’s longest and most ambitious work to date. Simultaneously a cosmic love story and an auto-biographical gut-search, the poem culls themes present throughout his poetry into a single work, where they are clarified in the light of a new found personal vulnerability. “When you die, it is poetry that leaves the body,” Brown writes — so it follows that life is all of the poetry vibrating within the body. The poem tells the story of one such body: “a man with strange light and tiny blisses…”

ITS COMING TO VANCOUVER NEXT WEEK. PLEASE COME. SHOWS LISTED UNDER SHOWS. Email me if youre coming and we will get a beer. writebloody@gmail.com

CLICK HERE TO WATCH A SAMPLE

Strange Light Promo

dbrown — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:30:45 +0000

Here it is folks the Strange Light extravaganza! Poetry and dance never looked so good together! Enjoy the magic and spread the good cheer to all of your friends, family, and rivals!

Strange Light Promo

The highly anticipated Noord Nederlandse Dans show featuring Derrick Brown’s STRANGE LIGHT will be visiting Canada!

BUY TICKETS!

Featuring at the Chutzpah Festival in Vancouver from 2/15-2/18!
For more information see Derrick’s Tour Schedule.

promo ybe

dbrown — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:37:46 +0000

headin back to holland, come see!

dbrown — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:34:19 +0000

the video of the dance/poetry magic is coming in january.

here is a clip that you should fast forward to 5.45 or so and has us rehearsing without the orchestra. Click the image for the goods. Sometimes they speak dutch. They could be talking mad trash…

EMAIL ME at writebloody@gmail.com if you want to come see it. It is really neat.

snazzy short poetry film from derrick and holechek film makers wins big

dbrown — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:10:52 +0000

When the Holechek brothers came to me and said we would like to turn your finger two dots then me poem into a short film, no new text, just the poem as is, I was skeptical. Various well meaning parties for the last decade had started on the project via green screen and it was never completed, usually due to the high costs of render time and graphic personnel. The H brothers decided to shoot it all live and add a few touches here and there to make it more like real empire strikes back special effects rather than the jar jar fake lazer feel.
I had no idea what a film festival liked or leaned towards. That world is so grossly foreign to me. The fellas went on a submission spree for late 2011 and 2012 and so far the results have been tasty. Kudos to you fellas for giving a rip and making poetry reach out to new places. It is a bad ass art form that just needs more talented collaborations like this to make it’s short arms reach farther out into the world. The coolest thing was the sweep of the Milwaukee film festival by winning
Best film,
Audience favorite
and Best Directors.

If you write poetry, imagine it beyond the page, beyond the stage, and then bust your butt to make it happen. You can do it.

A FINGER, TWO DOTS THEN ME, a poetry film by Derrick Brown. Directed by the Holechek Brothers.

Winner – Crystal Heart Award, 2011 Heartland Film Festival
Winner – Best Short Film, 2011 Vegas Cinefest
Winner – Audience Favorite, 2011 DC Shorts Film Festival
Winner – Best Film, 2011 San Jose Short Film Festival
Winner – Best Film, Audience Favorite Award, Best Directors, 2011 Milwaukee Film Festival
Winner – Award of Merit, 2011 Best Shorts Competition
Winner – Best Experimental Film, 2011 Miami Short Film Festival (November 17 @ 9:00)
Official Selection – 2011 Lone Star International Film Festival (Fort Worth, TX, November 10 @ 4:30)
Official Selection – 2011 Anchorage International Film Festival (December 2-11)
Official Selection – 2011 Illinois International Film Festival (November 19 @ 11:30a.m.)
Official Selection – 2011 Asheville Cinema Festival (November 3-6)
Official Selection – 2011 Wanderings Film Festival (November 5)
Official Selection – 2011 River’s Edge International Film Festival (November 3-6)
Official Selection – 2011 Director’s Circle Short Film Competition (online)
Official Selection – 2011 Coney Island Film Festival

More festival acceptances coming soon.

The Derrick Movie is almost here

dbrown — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:38:01 +0000

YOU BELONG EVERYWHERE TRAILER from Stephen Latty on Vimeo.

NEW PROJECT FROM DERRICK BROWN UNITES DANCE, MUSIC AND POETRY

dbrown — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:32:48 +0000

Great news from Long Beach folks!

The speak easy thrill fest was the best show I have ever put on. Thank you for dancing to lasers and listening to the buttloads of poetry talent.

I have been commissioned to do the coolest thing I have ever done.
I have been asked to write a new 40 minute long poem for the prestigious Noord Danse Collective to Dance to
and they also asked that I use some of the money to hire musicians of my liking to compose new music for it to
for Juliard choreographer Stephen Shropshire to work with.

We just turned in our rough draft and I have been trying out some pieces here and there. I will be trying out a few of these pieces from my first epic poem attempt July 31
with some music at the Portland Poetry Slam.

It is called Journey of Impossible Lovers. Written for the experience called INSTRUMENTAL

Once these 2011 and 2012 european dates have been completed
we will be reaching out to all of you to see if you can recommend any opera houses or large performance art theaters for us to bring it to.
Here is a sample of what they did last year.

Please come if you are anywhere near holland or germany. I will also be touring the UK and Germany for the first time in many years solo, trying out this new work and some translated pieces. I can’t wait.