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

Host Dario Calmese 

Producer Carmen D. Harris  

Visual Art Direction and Designs: 

River Wildmen, AfroVisualism

Original Music composed by Dario Calmese 

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