Poets

Jericho Brown is an American poet. In 2011, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.
He was raised in Shreveport, Louisiana. He graduated from Dillard University, and from the University of New Orleans with an MFA, and from the University of Houston with a Ph.D.
He taught at the University of San Diego until 2012, when he became a professor at Emory University.Previously he worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans.
His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, jubilat, New England Review, Oxford American. He serves as an Assistant Editor at Callaloo.