Dillard Alumnus and award-winning poet Jericho Brown is in the news with a new reading event and faculty position at Emory University. A Louisiana native and former speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans, Brown has won numerous writing awards. Brown's first collection of poetry, "PLEASE," won the 2009 American Book Award and he was recently awarded a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.  

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