Midwest Poets Series: Jericho Brown

    Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM until 8:00 PMCentral Standard Time UTC -06:00


    Pedro Arrupe, S.J., Hall
    5351 Forest Avenue
    Kansas City, MO 64110
    United States

    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.

    A Q&A and light reception will follow the event. This event is FREE and open to the public.

    Registration is no longer available because the registration deadline has passed.

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