Aspen Words Presents: Jericho Brown & Ada Limón at Winter Words 2020

Poets Jericho Brown (“The Testaments”) and Ada Limón (“The Carrying”) discuss what inspires their work, their career paths as working writers, and why no one should feel intimidated by poetry with Aspen Words Executive Director Adrienne Brodeur at Aspen Words’ annual author speaker series Winter Words.
Author of “The Tradition” & Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award
Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, “Please,” won the American Book Award. His second book, “The New Testament,” 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. He is also the author of the collection “The Tradition,” which is a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award. His poems have appeared in Buzzfeed, The Nation, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Time and The Pushcart Prize Anthology and several volumes of The Best American Poetry anthologies. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.
Author of “The Carrying” & Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including “The Carrying,”which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry and was named one of the top five poetry books of the year by The Washington Post. Her fourth book, “Bright Dead Things,” was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program and the online and summer programs for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She also works as a freelance writer in Lexington, Kentucky.