Jericho Brown gave these two talks, on suicide, and on joy, at the 2016 Tin House Summer Workshop in Portland, Oregon. His latest poetry collection The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press) was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award.
Jericho Brown is author of The Tradition, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Brown’s first book, Please, won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.