Dodge Poetry's video: Jericho Brown reads I Am a Virus

Jericho has partnered with Dodge Poetry as part of our "Whose Body? Project," our contribution to the national Poetry Coalition's initiative, Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body. Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Buzzfeed, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. For more information, visit http://www.dodgepoetry.org/festival-events/poetry-coalition/