Jericho Brown

Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.
Born	United States
Occupation	Poet
Language	English
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	African American
Alma mater	Dillard University University of New Orleans University of Houston
Genre	Poetry
Website
jerichobrown.com/index.html

Jericho Brown, born Nelson Demery, III, is an American poet. In 2011, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.^[1]

Life

Brown was raised in Shreveport, Louisiana.^[2] He graduated from Dillard University, where he was initiated as a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated, through the Beta Phi chapter, in the fall of 1995. He also graduated from the University of New Orleans with an MFA, and from the University of Houston with a Ph.D.

He taught at the University of San Diego until 2012,^[3] when he became a professor at Emory University.^[4] Previously he worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans.

His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, jubilat, The Nation, New England Review, The New Republic, Oxford American, The New Yorker, and The Best American Poetry. He serves as an Assistant Editor at Callaloo.^[5] His first book, Please,^[6] (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2008) won the American Book Award. His most recent book of poetry, The New Testament,^[7] (Copper Canyon Press, 2014) won the 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and continues his examination of race, masculinity and sexuality, often returning to the stories of the Bible.

Awards

• 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
• 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.^[1]
• 2009 American Book Award
• 2009 Whiting Award
• 2009–2010 fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
• Kraków Poetry Seminar in Poland, travel fellowships
• Cave Canem Fellowship
• Bread Loaf Writer's Conference two scholarships

Works

• "Thrive", Oxford American, October 2014
• "Elegy", Rumpus, May 2009
• "Rick", AGNI, March 2007
• "To Be Seen", The Missouri Review
• Please (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2009). ISBN 978-1-930974-79-1
• The New Testament (Copper Canyon Press, 2014). ISBN 978-1-55659-457-1

References

1. "National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows". Archived from the original on November 27, 2010.
2. "Jericho Brown". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
3. "Jericho Brown". University of San Diego. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
4. "Jericho Brown". Emory University. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
5. "The Missouri Review". The Missouri Review. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
6. Wmich.edu
7. Coppercanyonpress.org

External links

• 'Love in Contemporary American Gay Male Poetry in the Works of Richard Siken, Eduardo C Corral and Jericho Brown'* Simeon Kronenberg, Cordite Poetry Review (2015).
• "Author's website"
• "Profile at The Whiting Foundation"
• "Jericho Brown Recommends"
• "Danger by Desire: A Conversation between Jericho Brown & James Allen Hall", Boxcar Poetry Review
• "Naming Each Place"
• "A Conversation with Rita Dove and Jericho Brown", The Best American Poetry
• "Jericho Brown Presents The Phantastique 5", The Best American Poetry