Jericho Brown Pride of God Poetry Show

On Pride Sunday, join us online for an event with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown that features short conversations with poets Pádraig Ó Tuama, Jennifer Grotz, and Hayan Charara. Brown will lead us toward poems and poets that speak to the spirit through a reading of his own work and a Q&A, as well as brief exchanges with these three poets of diverse origins, sexualities, and faiths.

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.