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   Bio: Greg Brownderville was born and bred in the Arkansas Delta. He grew up in a small farming community called Pumpkin Bend, where he learned to play blues harp and heard a lot of soulful singing and preaching at a country Pentecostal church. He holds a BA in English from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, and is currently working on his MFA in poetry at Ole Miss. His poems have appeared in The HyperTexts, Romantics Quarterly, The Edge City Review, The Neovictorian/Cochlea, The Eclectic Muse, and elsewhere.
   
   His primary literary influences are the King James Bible, Shakespeare, and Yeats, but he has learned from many others, including Keats, Dylan Thomas, Jack Butler, Kamau Brathwaite, Goethe, Rilke, and C.R. Musiwa, a Shona poet he studied in the original at OBU with Zimbabwean professor Isaac Mwase. Brownderville also draws heavily in his writing from folk culture, especially from blues and gospel music, Delta folktales, and country preaching.

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   --In the wake of Deep Down in the Delta's publication, Brownderville was nominated by acclaimed novelist Donald Harington for this year's Porter Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Arkansas.
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   From a crowded field of nominees, Brownderville emerged as one of two finalists.
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   --Brownderville will be reading at this year's Choo Choo Ch'Boogie Delta Music Festival in Brinkley, Arkansas, on 20 May.
   
   --The 2006 topic of Mississippi's prestigious Blues Today symposium was whether or not the blues is, in fact, the Devil's music. Living Blues magazine asked Brownderville to present to this year's symposium the fourth chapter of Deep Down in the Delta, entitled "Devil of the Blues." Brownderville's presentation explored Haitian, West African, and Arkansas Delta folklore and mythology to address the mysterious identity of the Devil of the Blues.
   
   -- Magnolia Quarterly, the literary journal of the Gulf Coast, temporarily suspended operations due to Katrina; however, MQ is back in business. In the new issue, Brownderville is the featured poet.
   
   --Brownderville read poems at this year's Delta Blues Symposium in Jonesboro, Arkansas, on Friday, 31 March.
   
   --Brownderville said poems and told folk stories on Thursday, 2 February, on the DeSoto campus in Southaven, Mississippi.
   
   --Greg Brownderville's book, Deep Down in the Delta, got a nice plug in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the largest newspaper in the state, on Sunday, 27 November, 2005. Columnist Philip Martin called Brownderville "a wonderful young writer from Pumpkin Bend" and directed readers to this website for more information about Deep Down in the Delta.
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   --Brownderville gave a poetry reading Friday, 2 December, 2005, at East Arkansas Community College in Forrest City, Arkansas.