An Afternoon with Poet Jericho Brown

As the Cathedral celebrates Pride Sunday, join us for a conversation and reading with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown. A 2024 winner of a MacArthur Genius Grant, Brown’s poems have been described as offering “an unlikely kind of hope . . . evidence of a fragile belief in the possibility of change, of the will that makes change possible.”

registration

This is an online program and will be recorded for those not able to participate in realtime. Please register using the button below before 12 pm ET on June 1. The Zoom link and further instructions will be sent to you 2 hours before the start of the program.
Tickets: $25/regular; $18.75 student/senior/limited income

About Jericho Brown

Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, 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), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Buzzfeed, The Nation, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Time, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry anthologies.