Curations in
Curations out
Who's taking you?
- Curation by: The Matrix
Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Jericho Brown
- City: Atlanta, Georgia
- Country: United States
- Hometown: Shreveport, Louisiana
My Life
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Bio:
Jericho Brown is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Writer's Award. Brown’s first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award.
His second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection is The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019). His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review, Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME magazine, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry.
He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University.
My Media
- Website: http://www.jerichobrown.com
- Twitter: jerichobrown
- Instagram: jerichobrown1
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
For appearances, contact Blue Flower Arts:
Anya@blueflowerarts.com
For any media inquiries, contact Laura Buccieri:
Laura@coppercanyonpress.org
To send words of affirmation,
jerichobro@jerichobrown.com
Clips
►The matrix puts artists in discoverable reach of each other and the world via the m.o. of artists creating pathways to other artists.
► Human society is a small-world network, hence "six degrees of separation".
►The matrix is a small-world network too.
► In a small-world network...most nodes can be reached from every other node by a small number of hops or steps. (Wikipedia)
► In the matrix, hops/steps are recommendations, and nodes are artists. In the matrix, most artists are transitable steps away from most others . QED
► The matrix has its origins as an extension of a record shop opened to divulge the little known music of the people of the Recôncavo and sertão (subject of this interview with David Dye for broadcast on U.S. National Public Radio), per below. If everybody can now be found, they can too.
► According to Raimundo Sodré, in the sense of struggling under those with hands on the levers of society's power. The dictatorship of '64 to '85 got him. His protest song "A Massa" blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south before his career was destroyed, he was threatened with death, and forced into exile.
Music from the Center of the Sun (Nordeste do Brasil)
Dengo
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Add to my PlaylistSina de Cantador - Raimundo Sodré (6,839 plays)
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Add to my PlaylistMagnetismo - Raimundo Sodré (6,323 plays)
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Add to my PlaylistSacando a Cana - Raimundo Sodré (5,933 plays)
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Add to my PlaylistA Massa - Raimundo Sodré (4,990 plays)
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Add to my PlaylistMêrêrê - Raimundo Sodré (5,445 plays)
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Add to my PlaylistJardim do Amor - Raimundo Sodré (4,662 plays)
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Add to my PlaylistDebaixo do Céu - Raimundo Sodré (4,138 plays)
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Add to my PlaylistDesejo de Amar - Raimundo Sodré (3,849 plays)
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Add to my PlaylistOração pra Yá Oxum - Raimundo Sodré (3,729 plays)
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Add to my PlaylistYá África - Raimundo Sodré (3,498 plays)
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Add to my PlaylistMeu Rio, Cadê o Papel - Raimundo Sodré (3,168 plays)
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Add to my PlaylistCasa de Trois - Raimundo Sodré (2,886 plays)
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Add to my PlaylistMulher é Laço que Prende o Coração do Va... (2,547 plays)
► Pre Brazil our work (in NYC) included "rescuing" royalties for artists including Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Ray Barretto, Airto Moreira, Earl Carroll of The Cadillacs, Rob Royer of Bread, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin) and others.
► These people made it, for a while at least (in the case of Earl Carroll). But talent and even genius are more often than not insufficient to carry art away from its point of origin. And things can change (as they did for Earl and Raimundo and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos and how many others?). Hence the matrix.
