Jericho Brown
"I'm a person who believes in loving as one would want to see a life. I really do believe in making the poems that I want to be in the world, in teaching the classes that I would want to see if I were a student, in dancing the way I like to see people dance. And I think for me, knowing that I can do that is what I have. And I'm hoping that for more people that can be what you have in this moment. That we can hold up in the opposite direction some belief we have in community, project, something that we are doing, some child that we love, and I think if we can make the world we want to be in even if its only in our heads or in our homes or in our own cars on our way to work, then we'll be doing the beginning of something new."
"I wrestle with that—whether really this conceptual work that we do can really make a difference to people in need. And I've come to the conclusion that it can—that finding the right forms of language has real effects in the world."
Themes
Collaborative Creative Processes, Sensitivity, Stewardship