Jericho Brown: The Tradition

(00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter discussion(02:17) – Jericho Brown interview(57:00) – Southword poem, The Last Ice Pop by Patrick WrightJericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, 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), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.This week's Southword poem is 'The Last Ice Pop' by Patrick Wright, which is published in issue 49. You can buy single issues, subscribe, or find out how to submit to Southword here.