Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Jericho Brown, to hold reading, signing in Kyle

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown will hold a reading and book signing Friday, March 24, at Texas State University’s Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center.

The 7:30 p.m. event is free and open to the public. The KAP Literary Center is located at 508 W. Center St. in Kyle.

Brown is author of The Tradition, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is also a winner of the Whiting Award.

Brown’s first book, Please, won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection, The Tradition, won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Time Magazine and several volumes of Best American Poetry. He is a professor at Emory University and director of the creative writing program.

This event is sponsored by the Burdine Johnson Foundation and the Department of English. For more information, contact Jeremy Garrett at kapliterarycenter@gmail.com or www.kapliterarycenter.com.