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Here’s another writing exercise for
#NationalPoetryMonth
:
THE SELECTED SHEPHERD, a volume of Reginald Shepherd poems I culled for you, is out now! Please order here:
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My students stay calling all the women and people of color writers I teach by their first names and all the white men writers by their last name. And when I point it out, because I wait to point to out to be sure, they look at me like I’ve hurt them.
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I’m so glad this is true.
Y’all, a black gay man just won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
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It’s a loooooong career y’all. We don’t retire when athletes do. Everything doesn’t have to happen before we’re any age at all. Calm down. Put your body where it needs to be, but stay alive. The trick is to stay alive.
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If y’all catch Covid, please go sit down somewhere no matter how mild your symptoms. Stop trying to answer emails and go to meetings on Zoom. Get your rest. Covid can leave all sorts of trouble behind. Don’t push her cuz she’ll to fight you back even after you’re negative.
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Stop sabotaging yourself. Stop sidestepping success because you want to avoid rejection. Apply. Maybe they don’t already have anyone in mind. Maybe they have you in mind.
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I wish people wld stop saying critical race theory and just say there are literal laws being passed to stop teachers from telling the truth all over the country.
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I mean...I dunno...you have to admit, “Black queer men win the Pulitzer for poetry and drama” is a pretty funny sentence, right?
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Everyone is just so anti-rage in this culture. People want you to grit your teeth and smile while someone saws your feet off.
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People say stuff about 2020 like the absolute worst parts of the year didn’t start with decisions made in 2016.
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Later tonight, I’m writing to Joe Biden about the power of the black vote to elect Presidents & the expectation that this power have leverage when it comes to moving money from city police budgets to programs benefitting those most likely to be murdered by police for no reason...
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Georgia poet and Emory professor Jericho Brown awarded the Pulitzer
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@surlybassey
It’s so strange. So then I tell them, “well you don’t have to be upset about something you did as if it was done to you.” And they just drop their jaws. Almost 20 years of this now.
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I’m out here talking directly to my fears today, telling them I appreciate what they are trying to do for me, acknowledging how they’ve felt useful in the past, then very calmly & directly & finally letting them know I won’t be needing their services anymore.
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Toni Morrison really got a whole ghost pregnant in a novel, and no workshop could have stopped it! 🙌🏾😂
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This white lady next to me on the plane just out of nowhere asked me what I do (the question I hate most on Earth). I told her I’m a poet. Then she asked if I “write in the patois.”
I—
Like…
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Let’s see if I can teach this in a thread before my 5:30 appointment. Every metaphor is made up of two parts: the tenor & the vehicle, as in “the linebacker was a bear.” The linebacker is the tenor & the bear the vehicle...
@jerichobrown
hey Jericho! just enjoyed learning from you in ellen bass's workshop - your spirit is so bright. what did you mean about clifton setting up her poems with "tenor and vehicle" in the first two lines? felt meaningful but i missed the meaning. have a beautiful day ☀️
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S/O to everybody who has a Pulitzer but still ain’t got a man!
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Here's my Inaugural poem:
"...You want to see, in spite
Of my mask, my face. We imagine, in time
Of disease, our grandmothers
Whole. We imagine an impossible
America and call one another
A fool for doing so...."
#Inauguration
#JoeBiden
#KamalaHarris
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When I was a kid, I just wanted to have a book I’d written to be available in the
#library
. I always imagined someone like me using the library the way I did. It was a source of life! I wanted that other kid to know I was there, that we were together through time and space.
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It’s always so funny to me that the news will report what the police say happened like that’s what happened.
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“If only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.”
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I understand that everyone has to die. Today, I found out that I didn’t think of Louise as an everyone. Safe travels to the stylish lady with the relentless lines who loved Otis Redding & Aretha Franklin & RHOA & once told me THERE ARE NO LAWS AGAINST SADNESS!
#LouiseGluck
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They separated those children from their parents, and some of those children were so young when it happened that they hadn’t yet learned their parents’ names.
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You have to believe in your work and believe it’s come to and through you for a reason, and you have to take it to the world and fight for its place and its potential contribution. Other people will do that for you, yes, but you cannot count on other people to do that for you. ✊🏾
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I really don’t believe in rec letters. No one wants to ask for them. No one looks forward to reading them. & the same busy people get asked to write them cuz everyone’s under the impression that who or what institution the rec comes from cld be even more useful than what it says.
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Queer people, at the very least, write down & date how you want affairs handled once you’re dead. Send that much to someone! It’s no shade: the most seemingly loving families will put your body in the ground & proceed to suppress your work & alienate your lovers.
#HappyPride
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Whoa!
Congratulations to Jericho Brown, the 2020 recipient of Lambda Literary’s Trustee Award!
Read more:
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What actually do white people have to do to get arrested. Election disruption and rioting and disobeying federal judges doesn’t make it happen. What does?
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Oh, I had a poem come out in
@TIME
#TIMEmagazine
today. If you like it, I hope you have just as much to say about it as you would a poem you don't like lol.
#foreday
#thetradition
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I’d appreciate it if you’d say my name while smiling or think of my face while also thinking of me in good health. I really appreciate it and thank you for your patience if you read this far as we claim full physical vitality. All love and joy to you!
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I’m realizing how much we think of life as a series of tradeoffs, that we don’t deserve all of our happiness at once or to be happy about more than one thing at a time. I remember before winning the Pulitzer, someone asked if I had my fingers crossed about it, and I said...
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Y’all I’m so upset. Everything is business as usual. People will be sending work emails in a few hours and not asking one another if they’ve lost they’re minds after having had this experience. Okay!
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I think some of you are being so awful about Amanda. She’s 22. This is wonderful for her and doesn’t necessarily hurt you in any real way. Leave the woman alone. Occasional poems are generally a mess anyway. You don’t know how you would have done.
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I know y’all think it’s silly crying over a 99 year old I don’t know dying, but here I am…
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Lord, please let Biden win Florida, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. 🙏🏾
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This is a great way to change the story away from his white supremacy.
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Normalize getting all the sleep you can when and wherever you can get it.
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Men are going to have to have an honest and public conversation about why so many are incapable of being around women without getting rapey.
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S/O to Terrance Hayes to took me in when I was homeless as a poet, who ask to see what he called "your work" when I was 22 years old and 120 lbs., for being the the first straight man I knew I could trust, for always loving and fighting me like a brother.
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I cannot get back to sleep cuz I’m so happy & grateful. I have a poem in the New York Times today selected by Rita Dove. I’ll tweet it in a minute or whatever. But y’all: some readers and the respect of people who I know made my very existence plausible! Just... I... Hallelujah!
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I do wish people wld see this as a chance to rest and not a chance to figure out how to keep working.
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You can’t be a white supremacist and call for unity at the same time. White supremacists only ever want to unify with one another. If they ask you for unity, and you’re not white and Christian, there’s a plan in the works to have you participate in your own murder.
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I guess if someone asks me why I’m not into a poem, I’m going to answer why. But I’m not bringing up poems I don’t like. Matter of fact I’m clapping for them at the reading so we can move more quickly on to the next reader and trusting that poet did a great thing I just don’t get
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‘Say Thank You Say I’m Sorry’
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I love poetry, and I love living a life that leads to it.
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This is me reciting a poem I wrote in a form I invented.
#duplex
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There is no best poem and definitely no best poem on a subject. No best love poem. No best poem on police brutality. There is only the poet writing the best poem the poet can write. I really thought y’all knew that already lol.
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Toward the end of writing a book, you realize the thing you’ve obsessed over will be abandoning you: the two of you have figured one another out. You’ll have no organizing principle or major priority as a writer (read: certainty of identity) until the next obsession shows up.
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I’m headed to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and I’m both proud of myself and scared to death. I know you don’t know me, but I also know you don’t have to know me to pray for me. And if you don’t believe in prayer...
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The best part of my day!!
#AlfreWoodard
reading my poem “Say Thank You Say I’m Sorry.”
#honored
@jerichobrown
is quoted by a legendary figure Alfre Woodard.
Click the link to view the full video.
#mydu
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Hey can y’all help me with something? Can y’all explain the value of asking people who weren’t molested by a person they love if they believe the person was a molester? Cuz that shit looks like a waste of fucking time to me.
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If COVID were HIV, the courts would call this attempted murder, and THAT IS NOT AN EXAGGERATION!
So the latest, as I understand it, is the timeline suggests he knew he & his wife had covid but went around spreading it anyway, risking the life of President Joe Biden at the debate. Is that where things are now, or shld I not have fallen asleep because aliens are now involved?
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I just wanna make sure everybody understands, you can be a chancellor, and win a Pulitzer, love the Lord, make good money, wear a size 12 shoe, and maintain a 31” waist but still not get texted back!!!😂😂
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Nazis are bad. It’s a bad thing being a nazi. They are not misunderstood. They are, indeed, human beings, yes. And they are bad. It is possible for anyone to be bad yes. It is also true that all the nazis are bad. There is no reason to compromise or have patience with a nazi.
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I met Toni Morrison one time, actually spent a good portion of that day around here, watching her. The only thing she said to me though: “Oh hey, you were good. You are the the best.” Changing tenses like that! And I am still trying to believe her.
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I would like to announce that it’s the Friday of a hard week, and I AM STILL ALIVE.
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I literally have the best
#bookcover
in the world.
#CoverReveal
"Look closely enough and you'll see a beard as if the boy went to play in the field and came back a man who's stopped to tell you the truth. He's just like me." —
@jerichobrown
#coverreveal
THE TRADITION, forthcoming spring 2019.
Art:
@Laucorne
. Design: Phil Kovacevich.
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I really didn’t think I was going to make it to AWP this year, but I didn’t want to miss the chance to give this speech when they asked me to do it. Y’all pray for me!
Exciting news! AWP is thrilled to announce award-winning poet
@JerichoBrown
as the
#AWP24
Keynote in Kansas City, Missouri. Don't forget to register today!
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I don’t understand why they don’t just ask this judge lady if she thinks Jews are going to hell. Let her answer that in public.
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poet/poetry
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Oh, look, it's me on the cover of The American Poetry Review with a link to one of the duplexes, a form I've invented that merges the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues, nine to eleven syllables a line! Get you an issue and write a duplex.
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Yea, you won an award or whatever, but how do you treat people?
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Me in pictures with some of the writers who make me .
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I have the best kidneys in the world. They have not given up. They do what they’re supposed to do even though I don’t understand a word of it. Your prayers have indeed made me whole there. & I’m getting better with my other troubles too since coming back for treatment. Celebrate!
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It’s so hot in Atlanta. I swear it’s a thousand degrees.
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Can I give y’all just a little of advice that you don’t have to take...and really, I think this is just for men: when you hurt someone and the two of you stop talking because of it, at the point that you want to reach back out, start with the thing that paused the conversation...
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Shout out to the poets. I’d be all alone and completely lonely without you. Love you!
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The things y’all are so willing to consider when would be murderers are white.
This is the home of Joseph Morrison, one of the Michigan men recently arrested for his plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Can we acknowledge that maybe economic circumstances play a role in radicalizing people?
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Say thank you to a librarian today! If you don’t know one, this is your chance to expand your knowledge.
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I live in DeKalb County.
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Hey. Is everyone okay everywhere else or are interesting things happening that were not noticing because we’re watching DC? Tryna see just how organized this thing is.
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Today, I taught my mom how to read words given the sound of each letter. She did great. And it was such a very particular feeling because I did it the exact same way she did it for me when she taught me to read. It was satisfying and scary.
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Is it not clear that these people went into the Capitol w zip ties & guns? Do Dems and Republicans in office not understand no one actually knows what many of them look like to know whose side they’re on? Do these people not see they were meant to be held hostage and murdered?!?!
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I don’t care what y’all say, any better, a lil better, and not much better are all always way better when you’re in pain.
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The Democrats had the chance tonight to completely destabilize the Republican Party but have chosen to do this performance instead.
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I don’t mean to take anything for granted as all the votes aren’t counted, but the purpose of having Biden as President rather than Trump is that he can indeed be moved. But WE—whoever that may be—have to move him...
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Oh, look, I have a poem in THE NEW YORK TIMES today:
(selected by THE Rita Dove). Hope you get a chance to read it. It's short, and it rhymes!
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Joe Biden must really wanna be President not to have whipped that man’s ass for talking about his child like that. I hope he wins and sends DT to prison just for that.
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Emory professor Jericho Brown named Academy of American Poets chancellor -
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Stop calling that lady AOC. First of all, she has a title.
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You’ve worked so hard. You’ve come so far. If you look back at where you started, if you think about what you know now that you once didn’t know, you realize you’re now living in the dream you always dreamed. You’re finally on your way to some new dreams.
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But it’s not greed to want to live and live life more abundantly. As a matter of fact it’s my right if I can do so without hurting others. And so many religions of this world even call this right my inheritance! Oh hallelujah! So...
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Toni Morrison once said to me, “you were the best one” after she sat through a marathon reading tribute.
What’s your all-time favorite interaction with a famous writer?
Mine: I once played Wii Bowling with Denis Johnson at a party.
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My baby book
#TheTradition
drops today. I loved writing this almost as much as I love my mama. I’d like you to share in that love. The fire is hot. Keep it burning.
#poetry
#friends
Order here:
And come see me here:
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Y’all
I am in a situation where I just wrote a poem
And I wanna read it to somebody
But it’s 6:20 in the morning
And all my friends who i subject these kind of actions to still sleep
I haven’t slept cuz I been writing this poem since last night
It was like making love
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