American poet Jericho Brown was BOTD in 1976, turning 49 today. #jerichobrown #bornonthisday #supergays
Jericho Brown
American poet Jericho Brown was BOTD in 1976. Born Nelson Demery III in Shreveport, Louisiana, he studied at Dillard University and the University of New Orleans, before completing a PhD at the Uni…
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April 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
American poet Jericho Brown was BOTD in 1976, turning 49 today. #jerichobrown #bornonthisday #supergays
Reading back issues of @TIME and discovered Foreday in the Morning by @jerichobrown. “By the time the blooms/Unfurl themselves for a few hours of light, the women who tend them /Are already at work. Blue.” Read it all.
November 16, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Reading back issues of @TIME and discovered Foreday in the Morning by @jerichobrown. “By the time the blooms/Unfurl themselves for a few hours of light, the women who tend them /Are already at work. Blue.” Read it all.
Thanks to @nationalbook for the fabulous panel on resilience, space, time, “the unglamorous work of the revolutionary,” and the role of lit. during Covid. @TayariJones @jerichobrown @DeeshaPhilyaw @KieseLaymon Your written words inspire art, your spoken words inspire generosity!
November 16, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Thanks to @nationalbook for the fabulous panel on resilience, space, time, “the unglamorous work of the revolutionary,” and the role of lit. during Covid. @TayariJones @jerichobrown @DeeshaPhilyaw @KieseLaymon Your written words inspire art, your spoken words inspire generosity!
@jerichobrown you just follow me on insta or is that one of your presumably many fan accounts?
November 3, 2024 at 8:33 PM
@jerichobrown you just follow me on insta or is that one of your presumably many fan accounts?
Julie Marie Wade on the #poetry of @jerichobrown http://bit.ly/15QCwoj
“What if I risk/Taking the head of death/Here in the dark...
Julie Marie Wade on Jericho Brown's latest poetry collect...
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December 2, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Julie Marie Wade on the #poetry of @jerichobrown http://bit.ly/15QCwoj
"My goal is to write a book that knocks me off my ass & makes me rethink what a poem is" @jerichobrown in @BayouMag http://bit.ly/2f6sauI
Interview with Jericho Brown
By Marian Kaufman This year the Creative Writing Workshop...
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December 1, 2024 at 6:09 PM
"My goal is to write a book that knocks me off my ass & makes me rethink what a poem is" @jerichobrown in @BayouMag http://bit.ly/2f6sauI
"Our love of the immortality of poems can be dangerous if it narrows our aspirations as poets and if it narrows our ideas about what a poem can do." - @jerichobrown #MyDreamingMyLoving http://bit.ly/2Jeoq4M
December 1, 2024 at 2:27 PM
"Our love of the immortality of poems can be dangerous if it narrows our aspirations as poets and if it narrows our ideas about what a poem can do." - @jerichobrown #MyDreamingMyLoving http://bit.ly/2Jeoq4M
SWOON! Watch @NatalieGDiaz, @jerichobrown, and 2019 Lammy winner @rugamarspr perform poems of power and pride in the garden of @MellonFdn (introduced by @ProfessorEA + accompanied by birdsong!)
https://mellon.org/resources/news/articles/pride-poetry-and-power/
https://mellon.org/resources/news/articles/pride-poetry-and-power/
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November 30, 2024 at 12:05 AM
SWOON! Watch @NatalieGDiaz, @jerichobrown, and 2019 Lammy winner @rugamarspr perform poems of power and pride in the garden of @MellonFdn (introduced by @ProfessorEA + accompanied by birdsong!)
https://mellon.org/resources/news/articles/pride-poetry-and-power/
https://mellon.org/resources/news/articles/pride-poetry-and-power/
Poetry as Memory! Featuring poet @jerichobrown! #BKBF
https://brooklynbookfestival.org/events/poetry-as-memory/
https://brooklynbookfestival.org/events/poetry-as-memory/
November 29, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Poetry as Memory! Featuring poet @jerichobrown! #BKBF
https://brooklynbookfestival.org/events/poetry-as-memory/
https://brooklynbookfestival.org/events/poetry-as-memory/
"There is a subtle urgency to these poems, heightened and intensified by the forms and other elements of craft that Brown uses (and subverts)."
Make sure you check out our review of 'The Tradition' by @jerichobrown here:
https://bit.ly/2ki8EOw
Make sure you check out our review of 'The Tradition' by @jerichobrown here:
https://bit.ly/2ki8EOw
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November 29, 2024 at 1:39 PM
"There is a subtle urgency to these poems, heightened and intensified by the forms and other elements of craft that Brown uses (and subverts)."
Make sure you check out our review of 'The Tradition' by @jerichobrown here:
https://bit.ly/2ki8EOw
Make sure you check out our review of 'The Tradition' by @jerichobrown here:
https://bit.ly/2ki8EOw
"There is a subtle urgency to these poems, heightened and intensified by the forms and other elements of craft that Brown uses (and subverts)."
Read our full review of 'The Tradition' by @jerichobrown here: http://bit.ly/2RzWZcl
Read our full review of 'The Tradition' by @jerichobrown here: http://bit.ly/2RzWZcl
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November 28, 2024 at 8:49 AM
"There is a subtle urgency to these poems, heightened and intensified by the forms and other elements of craft that Brown uses (and subverts)."
Read our full review of 'The Tradition' by @jerichobrown here: http://bit.ly/2RzWZcl
Read our full review of 'The Tradition' by @jerichobrown here: http://bit.ly/2RzWZcl
Shoutout and major congrats to @jerichobrown for being a 2019 @bookcritics Awards finalist! If you haven't already, make sure you check out our review for Brown's book The Tradition here: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/09/15/the-tradition-jericho-brown/
November 27, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Shoutout and major congrats to @jerichobrown for being a 2019 @bookcritics Awards finalist! If you haven't already, make sure you check out our review for Brown's book The Tradition here: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/09/15/the-tradition-jericho-brown/
Here are this year’s #Lammys finalists in GAY POETRY: @BillyRayB, @jerichobrown, Douglas Crase, @cyreejarelle, @hadeejasouffle, @blackstreakwood, Brian Teare, and Lawrence Lacambra Ypil!
See the full list here: http://bit.ly/LL2020fin
See the full list here: http://bit.ly/LL2020fin
November 27, 2024 at 7:05 AM
Here are this year’s #Lammys finalists in GAY POETRY: @BillyRayB, @jerichobrown, Douglas Crase, @cyreejarelle, @hadeejasouffle, @blackstreakwood, Brian Teare, and Lawrence Lacambra Ypil!
See the full list here: http://bit.ly/LL2020fin
See the full list here: http://bit.ly/LL2020fin
Congratulations to all the 2020 @PulitzerPrizes Winners! Such an amazing list of people. Shoutout to the THREE current #Lammys finalists @jerichobrown, @BenjaminFMoser, and @TheLivingMJ! We're so proud of you all. ❤️
See the full list here: https://bit.ly/2zcK8pm
See the full list here: https://bit.ly/2zcK8pm
November 26, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Congratulations to all the 2020 @PulitzerPrizes Winners! Such an amazing list of people. Shoutout to the THREE current #Lammys finalists @jerichobrown, @BenjaminFMoser, and @TheLivingMJ! We're so proud of you all. ❤️
See the full list here: https://bit.ly/2zcK8pm
See the full list here: https://bit.ly/2zcK8pm
"Poetry is not interested in seeing itself last forever. It is a force that means to move us now."
Make sure you read this short essay by @jerichobrown, winner of the 2020 #Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, for Lambda Literary on the theme of Poetry and the Body! https://bit.ly/2WdKdlm
Make sure you read this short essay by @jerichobrown, winner of the 2020 #Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, for Lambda Literary on the theme of Poetry and the Body! https://bit.ly/2WdKdlm
November 26, 2024 at 8:08 PM
"Poetry is not interested in seeing itself last forever. It is a force that means to move us now."
Make sure you read this short essay by @jerichobrown, winner of the 2020 #Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, for Lambda Literary on the theme of Poetry and the Body! https://bit.ly/2WdKdlm
Make sure you read this short essay by @jerichobrown, winner of the 2020 #Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, for Lambda Literary on the theme of Poetry and the Body! https://bit.ly/2WdKdlm
TUNE IN JUNE 1ST FOR THE 2020 #LAMMYS! Take a look at this year’s finalists in GAY POETRY: @BillyRayB, @jerichobrown, Douglas Crase, @cyreejarelle, @hadeejasouffle, @JakeSkeets, Brian Teare, and Lawrence Lacambra Ypil! http://bit.ly/LL2020fin
November 26, 2024 at 7:01 PM
TUNE IN JUNE 1ST FOR THE 2020 #LAMMYS! Take a look at this year’s finalists in GAY POETRY: @BillyRayB, @jerichobrown, Douglas Crase, @cyreejarelle, @hadeejasouffle, @JakeSkeets, Brian Teare, and Lawrence Lacambra Ypil! http://bit.ly/LL2020fin
"Poetry is not interested in seeing itself last forever. It is a force that means to move us now."
Read more from our 2020 Trustee Award winner @jerichobrown on the power of poetry:
https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2018/04/a-new-way-of-living/
Read more from our 2020 Trustee Award winner @jerichobrown on the power of poetry:
https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2018/04/a-new-way-of-living/
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November 26, 2024 at 6:06 PM
"Poetry is not interested in seeing itself last forever. It is a force that means to move us now."
Read more from our 2020 Trustee Award winner @jerichobrown on the power of poetry:
https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2018/04/a-new-way-of-living/
Read more from our 2020 Trustee Award winner @jerichobrown on the power of poetry:
https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2018/04/a-new-way-of-living/
"I’d like us to rethink
What it is to be a nation."
2020 Lambda Literary Trustee Award winner @jerichobrown in the @nytimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/books/review/jericho-brown-say-thank-you-say-im-sorry-poem-coronavirus.html
What it is to be a nation."
2020 Lambda Literary Trustee Award winner @jerichobrown in the @nytimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/books/review/jericho-brown-say-thank-you-say-im-sorry-poem-coronavirus.html
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November 25, 2024 at 8:39 PM
"I’d like us to rethink
What it is to be a nation."
2020 Lambda Literary Trustee Award winner @jerichobrown in the @nytimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/books/review/jericho-brown-say-thank-you-say-im-sorry-poem-coronavirus.html
What it is to be a nation."
2020 Lambda Literary Trustee Award winner @jerichobrown in the @nytimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/books/review/jericho-brown-say-thank-you-say-im-sorry-poem-coronavirus.html
"This year, I’m coming out to myself. I’m going to check up on who I am when no one else is watching because that’s who I want to show off when we see each other in these streets again." @jerichobrown
November 25, 2024 at 8:39 PM
"This year, I’m coming out to myself. I’m going to check up on who I am when no one else is watching because that’s who I want to show off when we see each other in these streets again." @jerichobrown
The #PoetryCoalition is honored to present ONE POEM: A Protest Reading in Support of Black Lives on 8/18, 5 PM PDT / 8 PM EDT via live broadcast (closed captioning available). Featuring Lambda Fellow MATTHEW THOMPSON, @jerichobrown, @KazimAliPoet +++ RSVP: http://linktr.ee/onepoem
November 25, 2024 at 2:05 PM
The #PoetryCoalition is honored to present ONE POEM: A Protest Reading in Support of Black Lives on 8/18, 5 PM PDT / 8 PM EDT via live broadcast (closed captioning available). Featuring Lambda Fellow MATTHEW THOMPSON, @jerichobrown, @KazimAliPoet +++ RSVP: http://linktr.ee/onepoem
"[…] I keep trying to be a sound, something
You will remember
Once you’ve lived enough not to believe in heaven." -@jerichobrown
Find more in our review of "The Tradition," which we were reading this time last year:
https://bit.ly/34uoREU
You will remember
Once you’ve lived enough not to believe in heaven." -@jerichobrown
Find more in our review of "The Tradition," which we were reading this time last year:
https://bit.ly/34uoREU
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November 25, 2024 at 9:33 AM
"[…] I keep trying to be a sound, something
You will remember
Once you’ve lived enough not to believe in heaven." -@jerichobrown
Find more in our review of "The Tradition," which we were reading this time last year:
https://bit.ly/34uoREU
You will remember
Once you’ve lived enough not to believe in heaven." -@jerichobrown
Find more in our review of "The Tradition," which we were reading this time last year:
https://bit.ly/34uoREU
"... I don’t want
To be hopeful if it means I’ve got to be
Naïve."
We suggest starting #InaugurationDay with this poem by @jerichobrown, three-time Lammy finalist and winner of the 2020 Lambda Trustee Award....
To be hopeful if it means I’ve got to be
Naïve."
We suggest starting #InaugurationDay with this poem by @jerichobrown, three-time Lammy finalist and winner of the 2020 Lambda Trustee Award....
November 24, 2024 at 2:23 PM
"... I don’t want
To be hopeful if it means I’ve got to be
Naïve."
We suggest starting #InaugurationDay with this poem by @jerichobrown, three-time Lammy finalist and winner of the 2020 Lambda Trustee Award....
To be hopeful if it means I’ve got to be
Naïve."
We suggest starting #InaugurationDay with this poem by @jerichobrown, three-time Lammy finalist and winner of the 2020 Lambda Trustee Award....
A collage poem. Ever grateful for the #poetry & #teaching of @sophieherx.bsky.social & #JerichoBrown #WriteOn ❤️ #poetrycommunity
June 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
A collage poem. Ever grateful for the #poetry & #teaching of @sophieherx.bsky.social & #JerichoBrown #WriteOn ❤️ #poetrycommunity
'As if being remembered is a reason to write.'
Yeah, I know @jerichobrown ended that sentence with 'poems'. But damn, that's one hell of a great last line for a poem.
Yeah, I know @jerichobrown ended that sentence with 'poems'. But damn, that's one hell of a great last line for a poem.
December 13, 2024 at 1:38 AM
'As if being remembered is a reason to write.'
Yeah, I know @jerichobrown ended that sentence with 'poems'. But damn, that's one hell of a great last line for a poem.
Yeah, I know @jerichobrown ended that sentence with 'poems'. But damn, that's one hell of a great last line for a poem.
Found myself agreeing with so much in this chat between @CarrieLFountain and @jerichobrown - from whether or not poems need resolutions, to writing the poetry YOU want to read (writing first for oneself; for the pleasure and power it brings).
http://bit.ly/2DId0oR
http://bit.ly/2DId0oR
Jericho Brown - This is Just to Say
Poet Jericho Brown reads his poem “Duplex” from his new b...
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December 12, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Found myself agreeing with so much in this chat between @CarrieLFountain and @jerichobrown - from whether or not poems need resolutions, to writing the poetry YOU want to read (writing first for oneself; for the pleasure and power it brings).
http://bit.ly/2DId0oR
http://bit.ly/2DId0oR