Atlanta Poet Jericho Brown On His New Collection ‘The Tradition’
Atlanta-based poet and Emory Professor Brown will speak about his new collection, “The Tradition” this Sunday at the Decatur Book Festival.
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Atlanta-based poet and Emory Professor Jericho Brown has a new collection of works titled, “The Tradition.”
The poems explore themes of blackness, trauma, violence, queerness and memory.
Jericho Brown is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Writer’s Award.
Brown’s first book, “Please” won the American Book Award. His second book, “The New Testament” won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review, Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME magazine, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry.
He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University.
Brown will speak about his new collection, “The Tradition” this Sunday, Set. 1 at 2:30 p.m. in the sanctuary of Decatur Presbyterian Church, part of the AJC Decatur Book Festival.
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