Jericho Brown

Jericho Brown is an American poet and writer raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, whose books include Please, a 2008 work of prose and poetry, The New Testament from 2014, and the 2019 poetry collection The Tradition. He has taught at the University of Houston, the University of San Diego, and Emory University, and his poems have appeared in The New Yorker and The Nation. His work has won a Whiting Award, an American Book Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.