Author
Jericho Brown
Birth Date
April 14, 1976
(50 Years)
Associated Country
United States
Jericho Brown is an American poet and educator known for his powerful, lyrical work that explores themes of race, masculinity, sexuality, and identity. Born in Shreveport, he draws on personal experience and cultural history to create poetry that is both intimate and socially resonant.
Brown gained widespread acclaim for his poetry collection The Tradition (2019), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2020. He is also the author of Please (2008) and The New Testament (2014), and is known for developing a unique poetic form called the “duplex,” blending elements of sonnet, ghazal, and blues poetry.
In addition to his writing, Brown is a professor and has taught at several universities. His work is celebrated for its emotional depth, formal innovation, and its ability to confront complex social issues with clarity and beauty. He is widely regarded as one of the leading voices in contemporary American poetry.
Brown gained widespread acclaim for his poetry collection The Tradition (2019), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2020. He is also the author of Please (2008) and The New Testament (2014), and is known for developing a unique poetic form called the “duplex,” blending elements of sonnet, ghazal, and blues poetry.
In addition to his writing, Brown is a professor and has taught at several universities. His work is celebrated for its emotional depth, formal innovation, and its ability to confront complex social issues with clarity and beauty. He is widely regarded as one of the leading voices in contemporary American poetry.
Books
The Tradition 2019
Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate,...
The Fire This Time 2017
In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous pieces: James Baldwin’s 1962 “Letter to My Nephew,” which was later...
The New Testament 2014
In the world of Jericho Brown's second book, disease runs through the body, violence runs through the neighborhood, memories run through the mind, trauma runs through generations. Almost eerily quiet...