Jerico Brown
Come see Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown, for this FREE can’t miss event.
- Thursday, September 14
- 11am – 12:15 p.m.
- Central Campus, Overcash Building, Halton Theater
Jericho Brown is author of the “The Tradition,” 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. Brown’s first book, “Please,” won the American Book Award. His second book, “The New Testament,” won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection, 
The Tradition, won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for both 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, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program and a professor at Emory University.
In addition to being a celebrated poet and warm, engaging teacher, Brown is
the editor of the new anthology “How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill.”
Central Piedmont Community College Library Services and Student Engagement are hosting a Slam Poetry Showcase on Wednesday, April 26 from 11a.m. – 12:30 p.m. at Central Campus, by the Parr Center Collaboration Stairs.
Submissions are due Sunday, March 26 for Poetry, Short Fiction, and Flash Fiction.
Creative expression can help connect people with one another and opens us up to new ideas and ways of thinking. Central Piedmont’s Annual Student Arts & Literature Magazine (The Hammer) is now accepting student writing submissions for the 2022 publication. Submissions are due Sunday, March 27th for Poetry, Short Fiction, and Essay.