Jericho Brown!

We’re delighted to announce that Jericho Brown will be coming to Unbound next year. In addition to reading his poetry (his most recent collection, The Tradition, was short-listed for this year’s National Book Award for Poetry) and participating on panels, Jericho will be interviewing our keynote speaker, Tracy K. Smith, on Friday evening at the Missouri Theatre.

Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please (2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition (2019). His poems have appeared in Buzzfeed, The Nation, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Time, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry anthologies. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.