Confounded by Time and Love: An Interview with Jericho Brown

This interview with poet Jericho Brown, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book The Tradition (2019), includes anecdotes from his childhood, reflections on life and writing after receiving a major literary prize, meditations on his role as a teacher, a description of inventing a new poetic form, his journey to declare identity within his art, the upheavals of 2020, and shifting attitudes around social justice, censorship, and public education.