TIMES OF EXPRESSION & POETRY

About the Book

We all go through life having experienced different challenges and situations. Whether we are rich or poor we have seen some things that are great in life and we have also seen some things that are horrible in life. The experiences and challenges that we have personally overcome as individuals somehow shape us. The writer uses life experiences and poetry to illustrate the feeling of captured time. Time captured in memory never leaves us to faded pictures or broken glass like a picture in a frame. But time captured in memory gives us feelings, emotions that fill us with joy, anger, sorrow and sometimes bitterness. Mark T. Browning writes his version of captured time in the form of a nine chapter colloquy that travels over four decades of life with friends, family members, music, celebrity personalities, poetry, fashion and the moments that seem to make time stand still. You will enjoy the descriptions of life experiences of a young boy growing up in the Ft. Greene Projects located in Brooklyn, New York only to leave the projects to experience another side of life as a man. A life filled with experiences that lead to controversial statements ranging from, war, PTSD, racism, raising a family, drugs and gun policy.

About the Author

Mark T. Browning was born in Brooklyn New York in 1965 and raised in the projects of Ft. Greene where he learned social justice and street justice. Mark was a student at PS.67 which is the present day Charles A. Dorsey School. The Charles A. Dorsey School was the first public school in America for Black children during the early 1800’s. Mark learned black history at an early age as did all students at PS67. Mark’s shining moment was when his teacher Ms. Price cast him as Martin Luther King Jr. in the school play. As an adult Mark enlisted in the United States Army and receiving recognition as a desert storm veteran. After 13 years Mark was honorable discharged from the United States Army. Mark then attended Regis University and studied Marketing. Mark’s first employment after the U.S. Army was with the Colorado GoldKings of the WCHL while attending Regis University in Colorado Mark maintained his edge for success and black history while working in minor league hockey. Mark having always been a voice for black history and all children whether at home with his wife and kids or at the local elementary schools of which his children have attended. Mark is a father to seven children, United States Army disabled veteran that is currently planning to study law.