Jericho Brown
A Duplex of Light & Fire, Pulitzer Poet
I build poems that bend but don’t break.
I grew up in Louisiana where language had to carry both praise and warning. I made a form out of repetition, a duplex where every line talks back. My poems are not puzzles. They’re rooms you walk into, sometimes with your boots on, sometimes barefoot. I teach, I cook gumbo, I listen to Nina Simone like it's a holy text. And I keep a notebook by the lamp because a poem is a risk worth taking, every night.
What I'm Into: duplex form, spicy gumbo, Nina Simone, bricklight, Audre Lorde's words
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