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The UH alum will read for his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection,
The Tradition, on April 26.
By
Margaret Carmel
4/23/2021 at 6:00am
To many, Jericho Brownâs poetry speaks to this particular moment of civil rights activism condemning police brutality. But thatâs not all there is to his work, though.
Brown, 45, hit his literary zenith last year when he took home the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his third collection,Â
The Tradition, an earthquakingly masterful work that bends the traditional conventions of poetic form to confront many forms of evil in our society, from sexual violence to mass murder and, yes, the deaths of Black Americans at the hands of police.Â