S3, E10: Jericho Brown on Religion, Flowers, and Insight through Writing

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The Poetry Vlog (TPV): A Poetry, Arts, & Social Justice Teaching Channel

C. R. Grimmer

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Welcome to the Podcast Segment of YouTube's "The Poetry Vlog": http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog. Tune in for 30-minute guest discussions connecting poetry, cultural studies, and social justice. Guests range from published poets, scholars, and artists to folx just entering these conversations. C. R. Grimmer is a scholar, poet, lecturer at the University of Washington. For more info, to join the community, or to reach out: http://www.thepoetryvlog.com/ Join us: IG: http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog T: http://twitter.com/crgrimmertpv F: http://facebook.com/thepoetryvlog

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S3, E10: Jericho Brown on Religion, Flowers, and Insight through Writing

The Poetry Vlog (TPV): A Poetry, Arts, & Social Justice Teaching Channel

27 minutes 47 seconds

5 years ago

S3, E10: Jericho Brown on Religion, Flowers, and Insight through Writing

Watch the YouTube episode here: (https://youtu.be/mnfPoHxuXtE)

Poet Jericho Brown joins TPV and reads his original work, discusses religion and the symbolism behind flowers in his writing, and the issues surrounding our search for similarities between ourselves and others.

About Jericho:

Jericho Brown is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Writer's Award. Brown’s first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection is The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019). His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review, Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME magazine, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University.

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Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.