

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Live Poetry Reading with Award-winning Poet Jericho Brown
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: As part of the annual "Oglethorpe Out Loud" poetry series, join award-winning poet and writer Jericho Brown for a live reading in the atrium of Oglethorpe University's historic Philip Weltner Library. Inviting students, artists, and fans of the written word, this event celebrates the connective forces of creative expression.

Jericho 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, and he is the winner of the Whiting 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, The Tradition won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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 the director of the Creative Writing Program and a professor at Emory University.

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Seating is first-come, first-served.

Directions and parking: https://oglethorpe.edu/about/campus-maps/
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/north-druid-hills/live-poetry-reading-with-award-winning-poet-jericho-brown/200029650629902
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 593

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: North Druid Hills
- **state**: GE
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 4484 Peachtree Rd NE, Atlanta, GA, United States, Georgia 30319
- **lat**: 33.87593
- **long**: -84.33472
- **full address**: 4484 Peachtree Rd NE, Atlanta, GA, United States, Georgia 30319, 4484 Peachtree Rd NE, Brookhaven, GA 30319-2737, United States, North Druid Hills

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- **organizer**: Oglethorpe University (https://allevents.in/org/oglethorpe-university/15368499)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 4484 Peachtree Rd NE, Atlanta, GA, United States, Georgia 30319, 4484 Peachtree Rd NE, Brookhaven, GA 30319-2737, United States, North Druid Hills
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Oglethorpe University
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Live Poetry Reading with Award-winning Poet Jericho Brown ?
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