Today’s episode is with Jericho Brown, a Pulitzer-prize winning poet, scholar, and the Director of Creative Writing at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Exploring poetry as sound, Jericho's written word reminds us that language is always heard before it is spoken and spoken in order to be experienced. 
Dario explores an intimate conversation characterized by love- Jericho’s love for exploring the sound of creation, love for his inner child, and love for being in love. We discuss how it is possible to fall in love in a pandemic and what we do to protect ourselves from love and harm. If you aspire to write or create, allow this professor to guide you out of your belief in writer’s block and into your seat of messy.  Sensitive content: sexual abuse and rape
What We Mention
Jericho reads his latest poem https://poets.org/poem/vaccinated (Vaccinated) and from https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/the-tradition-by-jericho-brown/ (The Tradition )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jericho (Battle of Jericho)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48985/phenomenal-woman (Phenomenal Woman)- Maya Angelou 
https://poets.org/poem/ego-tripping-there-may-be-reason-why (Ego Tripping-) Niikki Giovani 
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47559/mother-to-son (Mother to Son)- Langston Hughes 
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44428/the-negro-speaks-of-rivers (The Negro Speaks of Rivers )- Langston Hughes
 
A Playlist Inspired by this Conversation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RaLvNPQSWk (Lord I’m running trying to make 100 ) St Stephens COGIC Youth Choir, 1997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aEImx74gLA (I put on for my city )by Young Jeezy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWf26BR9r3w (The Lord’s Prayer) – Patti LaBelle 
This conversation was recorded Jan 4, 2022


Host https://www.instagram.com/dario.studio/ (Dario Calmese) 
Producer https://www.instagram.com/carmendharris/ (Carmen D. Harris)  
Visual Art Direction and Designs: 
http://riverwildmen.com/ (River Wildmen), https://www.instagram.com/afrovisualism/ (AfroVisualism)
Original Music composed by http://www.dariocalmese.com/ (Dario Calmese) 
Visit us at https://www.blackimagination.com/oral-history (blackimagination.com )