Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Buzzfeed, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Best American Poetry. His first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award, and his second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta.
Poetry
Summer 2012
The Rest We Deserve
Our walls are thin, and the man who won't say hello Back to me in the morning as we lock ourselves out Of our homes—won't even nod my way as […]
Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown received the Whiting Award and the Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard. His poems appear in 100 Best African American Poems, American Poetry Review, Believer, and Oxford American. His first book, […]