Winner of Pulitzer Prize in Poetry One of the best-selling poets of 2020 40,000 copies sold of original paperback Philadelphia using The Tradition for city-wide...

• Winner of Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
  
• One of the best-selling poets of 2020
  
• 40,000 copies sold of original paperback
  
• Philadelphia using The Tradition for city-wide "One Book" reading program, the first time in their history they used a poetry title
  
• Jericho extremely active, with abundant interviews and events
  
• Supplementary materials include discussion questions developed in collaboration with the Free Library in Philadelphia and an extended interview
  

Author: Jericho Brown
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 04/26/2022
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781556596421

About the Author

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for The Tradition, Jericho Brown earned his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He is the recipient of the Whiting Writers Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland. His first book, Please (New Issues), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament, won won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal. Brown is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.