Brown's third book, a collection of poems titledThe Tradition (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), garnered widespread critical acclaim and won thePulitzer Prize for Poetry.[2]
Brown published his fourth book in 2023,How We Do it: Black Writers on Craft, Practice and Skill, an anthology of 31 essays and interviews from African American authors.[8]
"Thrive".oxfordamerican.org.Oxford American. October 2, 2014.Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. RetrievedJuly 8, 2023.
"N'em'".The New York Times. New York City, New York (published April 19, 2015). April 17, 2015. p. 23.Archived from the original on January 9, 2022. RetrievedJuly 10, 2023.The colloquialism of the title, which means "and them" — as in "Tell your mama 'n'em I said hello" — encompasses a host of people made familiar by the world of the poem. Most of us have known them: elders and distant ancestors whose way of being was rooted in the wisdom of folk knowledge, a generation now all but gone. Poem selected byNatasha Trethewey.
Armleder, John; Brown, Jericho (February 25, 2016)."An Artist and a Poet on Coupling".T. New York City, New York: The New York Times (published March 6, 2016). p. 114.For T's ongoing series, the Swiss performance artist, painter and sculptor John Armleder created a response to a poem by Jericho Brown, 2015 winner of the Ainsfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry.
"Night Shift".The New Yorker. New York City, New York (published April 9, 2018). April 2, 2018.Archived from the original on June 3, 2023. RetrievedJuly 10, 2023.
"Foreday in the Morning".Time. New York City, New York: Time USA, LLC. (published August 8, 2018). July 26, 2018.Archived from the original on April 12, 2023. RetrievedJuly 10, 2023.
"Dark".The New York Times. New York City, New York (published January 20, 2019). January 17, 2019. p. 21. RetrievedJuly 10, 2023.In this charming yet sobering lyric, Jericho Brown confronts his own image as a black man — what those on the outside imagine they see, and what he can't help carrying inside, locked from view. Driven by the lilt of the blues (ghosted in the buried rhymes of books/looks, concern/earn, blue/new, cracked/black), the layers multiply and intersect with sad, irrefutable logic. A relentless dismantling of identity, a difficult jewel of a poem: painfully candid one minute, in your face the next — and as we approach Martin Luther King Jr. Day, still distressingly apropos. Selected byRita Dove
"Say Thank You Say I'm Sorry".The New York Times. New York City, New York (published June 21, 2020). June 15, 2020. p. 19.Archived from the original on March 24, 2023. RetrievedJuly 9, 2023.The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown writes for the Book Review about life during the pandemic.
