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What does it mean to be a writer?

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What does it mean to be a writer?

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Jericho Brown on vulnerability, secret-keeping, and the beauty of not knowing

Carissa Potter
Jan 22, 2022
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So, I cried through most of my IG Live interview with Jericho Brown. I am simply so honored to be in his presence and so moved by his work, by the things he believes, by the permissions he seems to grant us to feel what we feel and then to listen to those feelings as if they were a piece of music. We talked about why people run from difficult poems, wha…

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