Aaron Brown grew up in Chad and has since lived in various cities across the United States. His work has been published in Transition, Tupelo Quarterly, Portland Review, and Cimarron Review, among others. He is the author of the poetry chapbook Winnower(Wipf & Stock, 2013), has been anthologized in Best New African Poets 2015, and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. Aaron is an assistant professor of writing at Sterling College in Kansas.
Aaron Brown, “Brickyard,” Ati, Chad, March 2007
Author’s note: I recently returned to Chad after a five-year absence and found the nation of my youth to be both the same and yet rem…