The Luce Center is thrilled to announce its upcoming poetry reading with Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown and Frost Medalist Marilyn Nelson! Join us Tuesday, November 30 from 7–8:30PM at City State Brewing Co. for an evening of poetry and fellowship facilitated by the LOGOS Poetry Collective. This event is co-sponsored by Image Journal, with support from Templeton Religion Trust.

Those who are unable to make it to this in-person reading are invited to join via livestream on the LOGOS Collective’s dedicated Facebook page.

Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of seventeen poetry books and the memoir How I Discovered Poetry. She is also the author of The Fields Of Praise: New And Selected Poems, which won the 1998 Poets’ Prize, Carver: A Life In Poems, which won the 2001 Boston Globe/Hornbook Award and the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, and Fortune’s Bones, which was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and won the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry. Nelson’s honors include two NEA creative writing fellowships, the 1990 Connecticut Arts Award, a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, a fellowship from the J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Frost Medal. She was the Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut from 2001-2006.

Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please (2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition (2019), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Buzzfeed, The Nation, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Time, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry anthologies. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.

Getting to the Venue

City State Brewery is conveniently located between the Brookland and Rhode Island Avenue Metro Stops on DC’s Red Line. It is also adjacent to the Metropolitan Branch Trail. There is some parking on the roof and street parking nearby; however, attendees are strongly encouraged to take public transport and/or to carpool as spaces are limited.