Episode 16: Jericho Brown
Host Rachel Zucker speaks with award-winning poet Jericho Brown about the differences between poetry and journalism, the role of truth and facts in poetry, the complexities of separating a poet’s autobiography from the work especially in the age of Facebook, writing about family and about queerness, coming out, “bad people,” the complications of assembling a collection a poems, poetry projects v. poems, and treasuring the “small, complete thing.”
Books by Jericho Brown
The New Testament (Copper Canyon, 2014)
Please (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2008)
Other Books or Writers Mentioned in the Episode
The Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle by W.D. Snodgrass (BOA Editions, 1995)
Interviews Mentioned and Other Relevant Links
“Becoming Jericho Brown” by Jeremy Redmon, published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Autobiography of Real: an interview with Jericho in the Yale Literary Magazine
Until the Fulcrum Tips: A Conversation with Rita Dove and Jericho Brown, published in the Best American Poetry
“Is This the End of the Era of the Important, Inappropriate Literary Man?” by Jia Tolentino, published in Jezebel
