The Art of Dreaming: From Langston Hughes & MLK to 2025
An Event in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Phyllis J. Washington College of Education ALI Auditorium and
7:30 pm
This event is free and open to the community. Seats will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. ASL interpretation will be provided. The Livestream link will be available closer to the event.
Jericho Brown is the author of three collections of poetry: The Tradition (2019), a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets; and Please (New Issues, 2008), which won the 2009 American Book Award. He is also the editor of the anthology How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill (Amistad, 2023), and The Selected Shepherd (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024), a new retrospective on the work of the important and sometimes controversial Black, gay poet Reginald Shepherd.