Category: Jericho Brown

Black History Month Plus Two

Posted on March 1, 2021 by

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February turned out to be another superb reading month. Despite being just 28 days long, I managed to read 11 books, broken down as follows: one history; one biography; one autobiography; one on poetry; two adult novels; one young adult novel; and four poetry… Continue Reading “Black History Month Plus Two”

Category: Danez Smith, Eddie Glaude Jr., Ibram X. Kendi, Jane Commane, Jericho Brown, Jo Bell, Keisha N. Blain, Nina Simone, Octavia E. Butler, Saeed Jones, Shaun David Hutchinson, Tracy K. Smith, Zora Neale Hurston

Thoughts: The Tradition

Posted on June 29, 2020 by

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My “no pride without Black lives” month of reading continues with Jericho Brown’s incredible poetry collection, The Tradition.  I have been following Jericho Brown on Twitter for some time, now, and I have read various of his poems in other places, but this is… Continue Reading “Thoughts: The Tradition”

Category: black lives matter, Jericho Brown, Poetry

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