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Nov 11, 2024 | 
southernspaces.org | Jericho Brown |Eric Solomon
In this extensive conversation (with audio excerpts), Southern Spaces “Queer Intersections” series editor Eric Solomon talks with acclaimed poet Jericho Brown about his editing of The Selected Shepherd and how Reginald Shepherd’s work “helps us think about Jericho Brown.” Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces is a collection of interdisciplinary, multimedia publications that explore, trouble, and traverse intersections of queer experiences, past, present, and future.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
poetryfoundation.org | Jericho Brown
Aster. Nasturtium. Delphinium. We thoughtFingers in dirt meant it was our dirt, learningNames in heat, in elements classicalPhilosophers said could change us. Star Gazer. Foxglove. Summer seemed to bloom against the willOf the sun, which news reports claimed flamed hotterOn this planet than when our dead fathersWiped sweat from their necks. Cosmos. Baby’s Breath.
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May 16, 2024 | 
onbeing.org | Jericho Brown
Transcription by Alletta Cooper Pádraig Ó Tuama: My name is Pádraig Ó Tuama, and one of the things that can often be really powerful in the context of conflict that happens between people is when two people who wouldn’t have been friends with each other, might’ve had huge differences, suddenly find something that they mutually hate and their bond goes really deep because they’re suddenly like, “Do you hate that thing?” “Yeah, I hate that thing.” That can be called triangulation, and it can be...
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
blackeyedstories.substack.com | Evie Shockley |Danez Smith |Mahogany L. Browne |Jericho Brown
Sometimes we forget Black History Month is not about educating others, it’s about celebrating Blackness in this country. And because Blackness is vast and diasporic, every year for Black History Month a theme is chosen. This year, the theme is African Americans & the Arts. Today 5 poets paired with 5 fine artists.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
audacity.substack.com | Jericho Brown |Roxane Gay
AUDACIOUS BOOKCLUB HAPPENINGSOur February book club selection is Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar. We will be in conversation with Kaveh on February 27th at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST. Registration is now open. I hope you can join us!THE NEWSLETTER WEEK IN REVIEWAubrey Hirsch on where the battle from reproductive freedom stands in the new year. An announcement about Roxane Gay Presents.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
bookriot.com | Jericho Brown |Erica Ezeifedi
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. While I am someone who fully believes in low-stakes, fun reading, I have also set the “strictest” reading resolutions for myself this year. I’ve been way lax in the past with reading resolutions, so the word “strict” here is working kind of hard.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Jericho Brown |“The tradition
People who romanticize an AfricaThey’ve never seenLike to identify themselvesWith lions. It’s all roar and hunt,Quick fucks and blond manes. People love the word pride. Haven’t you seen the parades? Everybody adores a lionBut me. I want to be a giraffe. I’m already tall and long-necked. In the real Sahara, a giraffe beatsA lion’s ass every dayOn Instagram. I’ve seenA giraffe shake the leaping catOff its back and toss it like litter.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
poets.org | Jericho Brown |Ross Gay |Elizabeth Alexander |in Pittsburgh
Find and share the perfect poems. My uncles are the tallest men I know. Every doorway a chance to bow Their heads, they love the Lord. Skin so dark their last name is Lenoir. Imagine growing up Black In Louisiana with a name that French But only able to pass for night. By the time each one hits thirteen, He’s picked enough cotton for me To think of blisters when I wear A new shirt. At fourteen, he thinks Of six feet with nostalgia.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
theatlantic.com | Jericho Brown
Editor’s Note: This poem is part of “On Reconstruction,” a project about America’s most radical experiment. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View MoreA rabbit tried to kill Louise Once when I was a kid.
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
pbs.org | Jericho Brown |David Joy |Angie Thomas |Natasha Trethewey
Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the historic winner —first woman and first Black American — of two National Book Awards for Fiction for "Sing, Unburied, Sing" (2017) and "Salvage the Bones" (2011).
