Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series: Jericho Brown, Poet

Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series: Jericho Brown, Poet

Date and Time

Thursday, September 3, 2020

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  • Thursday, September 3, 2020 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Location

Please note that all fall Cropper readings and craft talks will take place on Zoom.

5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110

Cost

Free

Details

On Thursday, September 3, 2020, at 12:30 p.m., the Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series welcomes Jericho Brown, the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, for a craft talk and reading at our first Cropper event of the 2020-2021 academic year.

Thursday, September 3, 12:30 p.m.: Craft Talk and Reading with Poet Jericho Brown
Zoom Link: https://sandiego.zoom.us/j/91993334905?pwd=MG9mZHNsa1h6OFJLd3U2RkkyVTBndz09

Meeting ID: 919 9333 4905
Passcode: cropper

 

Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please (2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition (2019), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Buzzfeed, The Nation, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Time, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry anthologies. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.

In a recent Statement of Solidarity written after the murder of George Floyd and in the wake of protests against police brutality, the Department of English noted that, “It is precisely in times like these that we witness the unique capacity of literature to remind us of the innate dignity of all human life.” Since its inception in 2004, the Cropper Center has prioritized bringing a diversity of voices to campus, to both enliven our campus community’s encounter with the written word, and, by extension, to help cultivate a collective understanding of the broad array of human experiences. 

Guided by these values, and in light of the English Department’s recent reaffirmation of its “commitment to the enduring work of anti-racism,” the Cropper Center is proud to announce that the 2020/2021 Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series will be a celebration of Black creative work exclusively. This fall, we will welcome the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, Jericho Brown, the essayist and memoirist Kiese Laymon, and the fiction writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. In the Spring, we will host a reading with our very own faculty member, poet Alexis Jackson. 

Please note that all fall readings and craft talks will take place on Zoom.

Jericho Brown, The Tradition, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

This event is open to the public

Post Contact

Brad Melekian
melekian@sandiego.edu
619-260-2906