Friday, February 25, 2011

Jericho Brown @ Roosevelt University


Roosevelt Reading Series
When: Tue., March 1, 5 p.m.
Roosevelt University, Gage Gallery
Loop 18 S. Michigan Ave.


Jericho Brown, a former speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans, has been a recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland. His first book of poetry, PLEASE (New Issues), won the 2009 American Book Award.