National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets.
For a list of events and more information about National Poetry Month at Highline College please visit the National Poetry Month official website (link below).
Jericho Brown is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Tradition. He is also 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 Writer’s 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 an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University.
The Inspired Poet: Writing Exercises to Spark New Work by 
Jump Start: A Northwest Renaissance Anthology by 
The New Testament by 
The Tradition by 
The Alchemist's Kitchen: Poems by 
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