Don't Miss: Poet Jericho Brown in Minneapolis

June 11, 2021 at 1:16PM
Jericho Brown attends the 46th NAACP Image Awards Nominees' Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, Jan 17, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Rob Latour/Invision/AP) ORG XMIT: INVW
Jericho Brown (Rob Latour/Invision/AP/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

This could be your first in-person reading since COVID, and what an event it will be — Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown.

Brown's latest collection, "The Tradition," explores Blackness, gayness, relationships and violence in poems that the New York Times called "resilient out of necessity, faithful to their account of survival, when survival is the hardest task of all."

Tickets for 150 socially distanced and masked people to attend in person are $20 each; tickets for the event livestreamed on Zoom are $10 each. Autographed copies are also available to order.

Event: 6 p.m., June 19, Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, 511 Groveland Av., Mpls. Register at https://bit.ly/2RNmHMQ.

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Laurie Hertzel

Senior Editor

Freelance writer and former Star Tribune books editor Laurie Hertzel is at lauriehertzel@gmail.com.

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