Clemson Literary Festival to Feature Pulitzer Winner Jericho Brown

Observer Reports

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown is scheduled to be the keynote speaker for the 16th annual Clemson Literary Festival March 29-31.

The festival, organized by students in the Clemson University Department of English, celebrates Clemson’s rich literary scene with a book fair and readings from students, faculty and visiting writers.

 “We have been talking all year about how excited we are for the arrival of Jericho Brown,” said Caroline Powers, a student organizer for the festival. “I have been reading up on his work and have become such a huge fan.”

Brown is author of the “The Tradition” (Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, “Please” (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award. He is a professor and the director of the creative writing program at Emory University.

Brown is scheduled to read from his work March 30 at 8:00 p.m. in Clemson’s new  Humanities Hall Auditorium. A full schedule of festival activities is continually being updated and can be viewed here. 

Other authors scheduled to hold readings include Clemson Writer-in-Residence Desiree C. Bailey, Samuel Amadon, Liz Countryman, Santee Frazier, Manual Gonzales, Dustin M. Hoffman, Sheri Reynolds, Jessica Lee Richardson and M.O. Walsh.

For more information contact, John Pursley, at pursle3@clemson.edu.