Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Photograph by Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Jericho Brown joins Kevin Young to read “When,” by Elizabeth Alexander, and his own poem “Colosseum.” In 2020, Brown’s collection “The Tradition” won the Pulitzer Prize […]

Jericho Brown Reads Elizabeth Alexander


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Jericho Brown joins Kevin Young to read “When,” by Elizabeth Alexander, and his own poem “Colosseum.” In 2020, Brown’s collection “The Tradition” won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. He’s a 2024 MacArthur Fellow and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.