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New Issues, October 2008
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About Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. Currently a fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute, Brown is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, jubilat, New England Review, Oxford American, and several other journals and anthologies.
His first book, PLEASE (New Issues), won the 2009 American Book Award. Please explores the points in our lives at which love and violence intersect. Drunk on its own rhythms and full of imaginative and often frightening imagery, Please is the album playing in the background of the history and culture that surround African American/male identity and sexuality. Just as radio favorites like Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, and Pink Floyd characterize loss, loneliness, addiction, and denial with their voices, these poems' chorus of speakers transform moments of intimacy and humor into spontaneous music.
For more on Brown, visit http://www.jerichobrown.com.
About Arlene Keizer
Arlene Keizer is an Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of California at Irvine. She is currently the Director of the Ph.D. program in Culture and Theory. For more on Professor Keizer, visit http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5511
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About the International Center for Writing and Translation
The International Center for Writing and Translation in the School of Humanities fosters writing, translation, and criticism in multilingual and international contexts. The Center possesses an international scope, a focus that champions writing, and an earnest exploration of translation as a challenge and practice. It links existing faculty research interests in cultural literacy to general discussions about linguistic and cultural issues relevant to the diverse, multiethnic and multilinguistic student population at UCI and to the population of California more generally. Through its support of writers, critics, and translators, the Center cultivates an awareness of the international world of letters and steers research and creative activities in the Humanities in vital, new directions. For more information, visit us at http://www.humanities.uci.edu/icwt, or to join our mailing list, email us at icwt@uci.edu.
About the Program in African American Studies
African American Studies at UCI is an interdisciplinary enterprise ranging across the Fine Arts, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences in order to study the societies and cultures established by peoples of the African diaspora in the Western hemisphere, particularly, in the United States. The program engages these issues as historical and symbolic concerns, foremost through the orientations of critical theory and cultural studies. For more information, visit us at http://www.humanities.uci.edu/afam.
Inquiries
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