Jericho Brown, whose first book, “Please,” won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Award for gay poetry, will conduct a poetry reading at Fredonia on Thursday, March 26, 7 p.m., at McEwen Hall Room 202.
Dr. Brown received the Whiting Writers Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland.
His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several journals and anthologies, including “The American Poetry Review,” “The New Yorker,” “The New Republic,” “Oxford American,” “The Best American Poetry” and Nikki Giovanni’s “100 Best African American Poems.”
Now an assistant professor of English at Emory University, Atlanta, Brown previously taught at the University of San Diego and was a speechwriter for the mayor of New Orleans. He received an M.F.A. from the University of New Orleans and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston.
Brown’s appearance at Fredonia, which is free and open to the public, is the first spring reading in the Visiting Writers Series sponsored by the Department of English and the Mary Louise White Fund of the Fredonia College Foundation. Before coming to Fredonia, Brown gave readings at Penn State University, San Diego State University and Auburn University, Atlanta.
