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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.
Jericho Brown is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and the director of the Creative Writing program at Emory University. Learn about his life, books, and honors on the Poetry Foundation website.
Jericho Brown is the author of The Tradition, a collection of poems that explores beauty, terror, and eros in the face of cultural crisis. He is also the director of the Creative Writing Program and a professor at Emory University, and the recipient of several awards and fellowships.
Learn about Jericho Brown, a Louisiana-born poet who won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book The Tradition. Explore his biography, awards, publications, and poems on the Academy of American Poets website.
May 8, 2020 · Brown’s own artistic greatness was affirmed earlier this week when The Tradition was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, making him one of two Black, queer men recognized in this year’s awards. Brown’s work interrogates the roots of evil as it exists against Black people in America.
- Ashia Ajani
Beauty abounds in Jericho Brown’s daring new poetry collection, despite and inside of the evil that pollutes the everyday. A National Book Award finalist, The Tradition questions why and how we’ve become accustomed to terror: in the bedroom, the classroom, the workplace, and the movie theater.
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Jericho Brown received the 2020 Prize in Poetry for 'The Tradition,' a collection that 'combines delicacy with historic urgency.' Read on to discover his creation process and what it felt like to win a Pulitzer from his bedroom.
