DERRICK C. BROWN IN THE WASHINGTON POST Brown spoke recently from his home in Long Beach, Calif., about finding joy in quarantine and the transporting nature of writing.
Meet Derrick the Dynamic. Enamored with David Copperfield’s disappearance of the Statue of Liberty on live TV, he dreamt of being the first Christian magician performing in Las Vegas. Then, war broke out. Final new episode of the Washington Post original docuseries "Throwback Thursday" is out today:
Poet and comedian Derrick C. Brown finds the bright spots in quarantine life
by Lindsey Sitz
Brown, a comedian as well as a poet, started writing poetry when he was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division in 1992. Today, he is president of Write Bloody Publishing, a press that focuses on work by poets who are also stage performers.
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