Jericho Brown, A Bilingual Reading

When: Friday, October 27th, 2017

Time: 5:30 p.m.

Where: Bloomberg Auditorium, UTEP Library 1st floor.

Creative Writing is hosting the great poet Jericho Brown, author of the acclaimed collection The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, which Yusef Komunyakaa describes as “a chronicle of “life and death, personal rituals and blasphemies, race and nation, the good and the bad” that illuminates “scenarios of self-interrogation and near redemption.” Brown is also the author of Please (New Issues, 2008), winner of the American Book Award, which our own assistant professor in the Department of Creative Writing Dr. Andrea Cote translated into Spanish (Valparaiso Editions, 2017). Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award and has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. He is currently an associate professor of English and creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

This evening’s poetry reading will include a bilingual reading of Please, with Dr. Andrea Cote reading her translations. The bilingual edition of Please will be on sale after the reading, with an opportunity for a book signing. Our own Bilingual MFA Candidate in Creative Writing Aldo Amparan who will be also reading his own poetry.

Please come, share this, and bring your folk: this event is sponsored by The Department of Creative Writing, The Liberal Arts Honors Program, the Department of Communication, the Department of English, the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rio Grande Review and African American Studies.