An Evening with Jericho Brown
Closing Date of Opportunity: November 30, 2023
Name or Organization: Calgary Distinguished Writers Program
Contact Email: cdwp@ucalgary.ca
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Join us at the Studio Bell Performance Hall for an evening with Jericho Brown followed by a Q & A and book signing.
Nov. 30, 2023
Performance Hall (Studio Bell, 850 4 St. SE, Calgary, AB T2G 1R1)
7 to 8:30 p.m. (Doors open at 5:45 p.m.)
Registration required | Livestream available
A๏ปฟbout Jericho Brown:
Jericho Brown is the author of The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He 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 Award. Brownโs 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, The Tradition, won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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 the director of the Creative Writing Program and a professor at Emory University.