Jericho Brown | |
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 Jericho Brown reading at the 2023 National Book Festival | |
| Born | Nelson Demery III April 14, 1976 Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S. |
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| Language | English |
| Education | Dillard University (BA) University of New Orleans (MFA) University of Houston (PhD) |
| Notable works | The Tradition (2019) |
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Jericho Brown (born April 14, 1976) is an American poet and writer. Born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, Brown has worked as an educator at institutions such as the University of Houston, the University of San Diego, and Emory University. His poems have been published in The Nation, New England Review, The New Republic, Oxford American, and The New Yorker, among others. He released his first book of prose and poetry, Please, in 2008. His second book, The New Testament, was released in 2014. His 2019 collection of poems, The Tradition, garnered widespread critical acclaim.
Brown has won several accolades throughout his career, including a Whiting Award, an American Book Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.[1][2]
- ^ "National Endowment for the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows". Archived from the original on November 27, 2010.
- ^ "2020 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prizes. May 4, 2020. Archived from the original on July 30, 2020. Retrieved May 4, 2020.