Jericho Brown, Guest Blogger December 11 -18

This week we welcome Jericho Brown as our guest blogger.  Jericho worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. The recipient of the Whiting Writers Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, Brown is an Assistant Professor at the University of San Diego. His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including, The American Poetry Review, The Believer, jubilat, Oxford American, Ploughshares, A Public Space, and 100 Best African American Poems.  His first book, PLEASE (New Issues), won the American Book Award. Find out more about Jericho here.

Welcome, Jericho. 

-- sdh

Comments

[Richard Marx Weinraub]

Hey Jericho--

This is Richard Marx Weinraub; we briefly talked after your NYU reading. A few days later I went to your Rutgers/Newark reading. I was really wowed! Not only was your poetry about your family and psychology terrific, I also loved the way you let the MFA students strut their stuff in a very supportive atmosphere. Hoots and all--exactly what academia needs! Please keep in touch.
Richard
[email protected]

[The Best American Poetry]

Welcome aboard, Jericho. DL

[Jericho Brown]

Thanks so much for the welcome aboard, Stacey! Richard, I was so happy to see you in both audiences. More than anything while reading, a poet like me needs to know someone is somehow reacting. I really appreciate that. My email is [email protected]. Thanks for sending yours.

Jericho

[The Best American Poetry]

Also wanted to say I've gotten a lot of mileage out of the chamillionaire anecdote, Jericho. -- DL

[RMW]

Thanks so much, Jericho

Richard Marx Weinraub

[Jericho Brown]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtwJvgPJ9xw

[Jericho Brown]

I'm a fool for anybody with gold or platinum teeth.

[Adventure Racing]

Thanks for the share Jericho. :D