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Jericho Brown – Small Truths and Other Surprises

On Being with Krista Tippett

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I Changed My Name When I Was First Writing

When i first started publishing my poems, they came under the name nelson dimmery the third. And so me changing my name had a lot to do with, like i was saying, trying to be the individual that emerges within the community. I needed to be jericho brown, because i needed to have that freedom named. There's there's a poem im called our father, like father, like father. Please read it if you haven'tlangston hughes talks about this in the negro artist and the racial mountain. T s eliot talks about this in tradition, in the individual talent. The idea that whatever we're writing, we have to be free....

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