Naming Each Place

Abstract

"I always tell people I was born and raised in Shreveport, but I grew up in New Orleans." In four poems from his collection Please and an interview with Natasha Trethewey, Jericho Brown delves into double-edged father-son relationships, acquiring an education, historical racism, the exigencies of escape, and being a gay black man in the US South.

Keywords

• African American Studies
• Gender and Sexuality
• Literary Criticism
• Poetry
• Biography
• @Emory