Jericho Brown’s daring poetry collection 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, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brown’s mastery, and his invention of the duplex – a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues – testament to his formal skill. The Tradition is a cutting […]
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Jericho Brown on "The Tradition" | 2019 National Book Festival
Morgan Parker on "Magical Negro" at the 2019 AWP Book Fair
Ada Limon on "The Carrying" at the 2019 AWP Book Fair
Keith S. Wilson on Fieldnotes on "Ordinary Love" at the 2019 AWP Book Fair
Kevin Young on "Brown" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair
Billy Collins and Juan Felipe Herrera on "The Rain in Portugal" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair
Tracy K. Smith on "Wade in the Water: Poems" at the 2018 National Book Festival
Mary Jo Bang and Christopher Merrill talk poetry at the 2018 L.A. Times Festival of Books
Robin Coste Lewis and Evie Shockley at the 2018 L.A. Times Festival of Books
Ada Limon reads "The Vulture and the Body" at the 2018 AWP Book Fair
Adrian Matejka reads "Emily Dickinson ft Basketball and EPMD" at the 2018 AWP Book Fair
Danez Smith reads "Everyday is a Funeral & a Miracle" at AMP 2018
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