Purchase College-SUNY will present the award-winning poet Jericho Brown in a program that is free and open to the public. The event is part of the Durst Distinguished Lecture Series.
Jericho Brown is the author of The Tradition, named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and long listed for the 2019 National Book Award; The New Testament, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and named one of the best books of the year by the Academy of American Poets; and Please, winner of the 2009 American Book Award.
