Jericho Brown's "The Card Tables"

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🗓️ 22 February 2022

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Jericho Brown (born April 14, 1976) is an American poet and writer. Born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, Brown has worked as an educator at institutions such as University of Houston, San Diego State University, and Emory University. His poems have been published in The Nation, New England Review, The New Republic, Oxford American, and The New Yorker, among others. He released his first book of prose and poetry, Please, in 2008. His second book, The New Testament, was released in 2014. His 2019 collection of poems, The Tradition, garnered widespread critical acclaim.

Brown has won several accolades throughout his career, including a Whiting Award, an American Book Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.[1][2]

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0:00.0	Oh geez, Dad, not the car again.
0:02.6	Oh, happens all the time with old Betsy.
0:04.6	Have you checked out Carvana yet?
0:06.3	They have thousands of cars for under $20,000.
0:09.3	But did those thousands of cars have personality like old Betsy?
0:12.6	Betsy's held together by tape.
0:14.6	And there are raccoons living in the engine.
0:16.1	It's a family car.
0:17.5	There are flames on the hood?
0:19.4	A custom paint job.
0:20.7	No, dad.
0:21.3	The car's on fire.
0:22.5	How many cars did you say Carvana had?
0:24.2	Visit Carvana.com to shop thousands of cars for under $20,000.
0:28.1	We'll drive you happy at Carvana.
0:32.7	Hello and welcome to the Daily Poem, brought to you this month by Bibliophiles. I'm Heidi White,
0:39.1	and today is Monday, February 21st. February is Black History Month, and in honor of that,
0:46.7	I'm going to read for you a poem by American poet Jericho Brown. He's a contemporary poet. He's written
0:53.7	three volumes of poetry, please, the New
0:57.2	Testament, and the tradition. The tradition was published in 2019, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for
1:04.3	Poetry and was a finalist for many other awards. Jericho Brown has won many awards for his poetry. He's also an educator.
1:13.7	He's an associate professor and the director of the creative writing program at Emory
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