Jericho Brown

Published: June 30, 2021, 4 a.m.

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Jericho Brown\\xa0is author of the\\xa0The\\xa0Tradition\\xa0(Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the\\xa0recipient 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 Award. Brown\\u2019s first book,\\xa0Please\\xa0(New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award. His second book,\\xa0The\\xa0New Testament\\xa0(Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection,\\xa0The\\xa0Tradition\\xa0won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.\\xa0His poems have appeared in\\xa0The Bennington Review,\\xa0Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic,\\xa0The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME\\xa0magazine,\\xa0and several volumes of\\xa0The Best American Poetry.\\xa0He is the director of the Creative Writing Program and a professor at Emory University.

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