Jericho Brown

Jericho Brown  is an American poet who was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.

Life
He graduated from Dillard University, and from the University of New Orleans with an MFA, and from the University of Houston with a Ph.D. He teaches at the University of San Diego. He worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans.

His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, jubilat, New England Review, Oxford American. He serves as an Assistant Editor at Callaloo.

Awards

 * 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.
 * 2009 American Book Award
 * 2009 Whiting Writers' Award
 * 2009–2010 fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
 * Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, travel fellowships
 * Cave Canem Fellowship
 * Bread Loaf Writer's Conference two scholarships

Publications

 * "Elegy", Rumpus, May 2009
 * "Rick", AGNI, 3/2007
 * "To Be Seen", The Missouri Review


 * Please (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2009) ISBN 9781930974791

Review
"Brown is able to seamlessly place music icons into a constellation of his own family members and lovers: a mother who goes back to her abusive husband, a homeless gay teenager, a father who prefers to speak with the back of his hand. These voices are united by a menace that can never be fully exorcised, only recognized and sung about."