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Jericho Brown

Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown is author of the The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. The Tradition also won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program and a professor at Emory University.


Jericho Brown on Claude McKay’s Subversive, Foundational Poems of Love and Protest

“In Harlem Shadows McKay used form to inscribe the fact of his own Blackness.”
January 11, 2022  By Jericho Brown
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‘Correspondence’
A Poem by Jericho Brown

From his collection The Tradition
April 8, 2019  By Jericho Brown
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