An Evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Jericho Brown

Jackson Hole Writers is excited to invite the public to attend the keynote address for the 2024 Jackson Hole Writers Conference on Friday, November 1st from 5:30-7:00 in the Center Theater. This year’s keynote speaker is Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown. Join us for an exciting evening with one of the important voices in contemporary American literature.

Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, 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 (2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (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. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition (2019), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Buzzfeed, The Nation, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Time, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry anthologies.