[Unedited] Jericho Brown with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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I Changed My Name When I Was First Writing
When i first started in my poems, they came under the name nelson dimmery,. Can you ill believe that? And your father was nelson demmery, thejune t junior, not second. I needed to be jericho brown because i needed to have that freedom named. It's this idea that whatever we're writing, we have to, we have to be free. All those things could get turned on their head while you're writing a poem. People intuitively or instinctively, people know, oh, you're dangerous. You're hugely problematic....
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