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Join us for a reading and Q&A with acclaimed poet, Jericho Brown at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. ($12/Aldrich Member $10.80). For more information and to purchase tickets visit Aldrichart.org. A book signing will follow the reading and Ridgefield’s Books on The Common will be on site selling his latest poetry collection, The Tradition.
A Masterclass Poetry Workshop will also take place from 1 to 3 PM on Feb. 13 ($89/Aldrich Member $80).
Jericho Brown is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Writer’s Award. 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. His third collection is The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019). His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review,Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME magazine, and several volumes ofThe Best American Poetry. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University.
These programs are co-sponsored by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield Library and Books on the Common.
