Award-winning poet Jericho Brown comes to WSU-Pullman

About the event

The Visiting Writer Series at Washington State University-Pullman is proud to bring award-winning poet Jericho Brown to campus February 26 and 27. Brown will read from his poetry followed by a Q&A and book signing at the Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center. The event is free and open to the public. All are welcome. Brown’s visit is co-sponsored by ASWSU and the Common Reading Program. A Common Reading stamp will be available at the reading.

The New York Times writes: “There are countless poets of the body, but the body in Brown’s poetry serves as a nexus of the corporeal and conceptual. The ‘body’ of his work isn’t just a physical, individual one; it’s a stand-in for various (flawed) institutions of power and belief: national history, religion, mythology, the justice system.”

During his visit, Brown will also meet with various student groups and classes.

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. Brown’s first book, Please (2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition (2019), a finalist for the National Book Award. His poems have appeared in Buzzfeed, The Nation, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Time, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry anthologies. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.

For more information please visit the Visiting Writer Series website: https://english.wsu.edu/visiting-writers/