Black Writers Series Reading with Jericho Brown
Department: Intl. Center for Writing and Trans.
Date and Time: February 24, 2010 | 6:00 PM-7:30 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway 1010
Event Details
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.
Moderated by Arlene Keizer, Department of English and Director of the Ph.D. program in Culture and Theory. Booksale and signing to follow.
This is the fourth event in our Black Writers Series, a partnership between the ICWT and the Program in African American Studies. Co-sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Study, the Department of English and the Cross Cultural Center.
For more information or special accommodation requests: icwt@uci.edu or (949) 824-1948.