E40 Jericho Brown: Shaping Reality with Words.

Today’s episode is with Jericho Brown, a Pulitzer-prize winning poet, scholar, and the Director of Creative Writing at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Exploring poetry as sound, Jericho's written word reminds us that language is always heard before it is spoken and spoken in order to be experienced.

Dario explores an intimate conversation characterized by love- Jericho’s love for exploring the sound of creation, love for his inner child, and love for being in love. We discuss how it is possible to fall in love in a pandemic and what we do to protect ourselves from love and harm. If you aspire to write or create, allow this professor to guide you out of your belief in writer’s block and into your seat of messy. Sensitive content: sexual abuse and rape

What We Mention

Jericho reads his latest poem Vaccinated and from The Tradition

Battle of Jericho

Phenomenal Woman- Maya Angelou

Ego Tripping- Niikki Giovani

Mother to Son- Langston Hughes

The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Langston Hughes

A Playlist Inspired by this Conversation

Lord I’m running trying to make 100 St Stephens COGIC Youth Choir, 1997

I put on for my city by Young Jeezy

The Lord’s Prayer – Patti LaBelle

This conversation was recorded Jan 4, 2022