Jericho Brown Would you write a list poem of all your “still doing that? Wow!” moments? Please.

Jericho Brown “Congratulations! It’s a wildfire!”

On The Slave Is Gone we talk about #Dickinson , queerness and desire, power and history, ambition and repression, race and cultural appropriation ... and we ALWAYS bring it back to the poetry.
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People really are still doing gender reveals wow

“Earlier than that”

For some reason I cannot name, I have a sudden thirst for a thread of footage showing what happens when “Shake That Monkey” comes on in a room where there’s at least one Sigma Gamma Rho 😍🧵!!!

Yes, I may be at risk,
But I promise you, I trust the maggots
Who live beneath the floorboards
Of my house to do what they must
To any carcass more than I trust
An officer of the law of the land
To shut my eyes like a man

Jericho Brown, Bullet Points

Sandra Renrick Jericho Brown Found out where slave deeds are recorded when researching this artifact at the Beauport sleeper McCann house in Gloucester. It hangs on the wall…like art. No context. It keeps me up at night. It’s an original. House/owner has nothing to do with deed.

Sandra Renrick Jericho Brown Slave deeds can be found at the county clerk. Same as houses.

Jericho Brown Also, did you know that the government paid enslavers for their 'lost property' after those who were enslaved were freed?

Joseph Fasano Not a poem, but a quote by a brilliant poet.
“One of the ways we know we’re magical people is by how much we manage to do with broken hearts.”
― Jericho Brown

A.M. Juster (#Petrarch @wwnorton in early 2024) Alicia E. Stallings Aaron Poochigian 🌒Annie Finch, Ph.D🌘 I think things are slightly different/better for US poets publishing in the UK; Shane McCrae's pentametric dramatic monologues, Terrance Hayes's sonnets, Timothy Donnelly's rhyming couplets, Jericho Brown's duplexes, all well received here in recent years.

#VoteOutBrianKKKemp

Brian Kemp’s family owned 3 slave plantations & his 18th century ancestor James Habersham successfully lobbied to institute slavery in Georgia, become its governor and built a fortune from the family's slave rice plantations: Silk Hope, Forest Dean & Beverley

Jesus

Did you hear The Slave Is Gone's fabulous conversation about #Dickinson with Danez? And are you ready for the episodes we have coming up with Amber Flame, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, and
Tracy K. Smith??
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Abstracts due next week. You don't want to miss CLA Scholar's first in person convention in over two years. Nor do you want to miss the keynote by Jericho Brown! If you needed an excuse to come hang in ATL, here you go!

(I have my students occasionally update this notice board with lines of poetry they like from my classroom library-- the credit goes to Jericho Brown for writing these lines and to my student for choosing them and painstakingly placing all the little plastic letters)

I want to publicly thank the five brilliant people who took the time to read my novel and provide blurbs. Their words mean so much to me - Jericho Brown Tiphanie Yanique Kevin Wilson, Chitra B. Divakaruni and Samrat Upadhyay. Thank You!