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Arthur Brown

Arthur Brown’s poems have been published in The New Criterion, Plume, Janus Head, Poetry, Agni, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, and other journals. He has published two poetry books and his poems have won the Morton Marr and the American Literary Review poetry prizes.

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Fall 2025

What Is Required

By Arthur Brown

The Kenyon Review · “What Is Required” by Arthur Brown A grid of two-inch wire squares,the railing sectioned into screens — freestanding, bolted, harbor gray — on this side of the canopy.The trees beyond […]

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Fall 2025

Matisse in Vence

By Arthur Brown

The Kenyon Review · “Matisse in Vence” by Arthur Brown I. Bonnard’s Second ThoughtWhat Bonnard carried with him on the roadback to his studio was not the landbut what it […]