SMU Poet Greg Brownderville: medium for a multitasking muse

SMU Perspectives

We waited to release our latest episode of SMU Perspectives Podcast until October because it’s the month of Halloween and pumpkins and things that go bump in the night. Our guest, SMU English Professor/Poet Greg Brownderville, hails from Pumpkin Bend, Ark., where folklore holds court like a poet-in-residence. It wafts through the Mississippi Delta breeze and lifts up mystical ideas like “marked” babies. That’s a situation where a tractor injury to a relative, like Greg’s father, might magically leave “marks” upon his sons. It did. Greg’s fascination with the “imagination of spirituality and the spirituality of imagination” conjures a feisty muse in his award-winning poetry collections. He reads from “Gust,” and the mysterious ways of God in scripture and life are examined. Inquire about Greg to an SMU Dean or fellow professors and they classify him as “genius” and “renaissance figure.” Though Greg will allow his creative bursts may cause loss of sleep at times, he will rise and devote his days to teaching poetry and creating writing, editing the iconic SMU literary quarterly magazine Southwest Review, producing “Go-Shows,” podcasts, and musical albums. Even if it is undetectable, all the while Greg Brownderville is influenced by Welsh Bards and Fairies and the pursuit of art. Thus, October.

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