Poetry, Vulnerability and Finding Your Voice with Jericho Brown

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🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Is it time to take the leap? Anyone you've admired, looked up to or emulated has, at some point, taken a necessary risk to move towards the living and life of their choice. Today, Pulitzer prize-winning poet Jericho Brown shares how he did just that, and the key to speaking truth through art.

Jericho's advice for anyone beginning their journey struck me as profound, yet simple. What would a day look like if you were living your dream career/life/business? What you begin to realize is that there are things that you can do today, cost-free, to move towards that reality. "If you want to be a writer, then write for 5 minutes. Once you find 5 minutes, you can find 10, and 30, and once you are writing for 30 minutes a day you on your way," Jericho says.

Jericho worked as a speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before earning his PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston.

The New York Times Book Review notes his most recent collection The Tradition: “In Brown’s poems, the body at risk — the infected body, the abused body, the black body, the body in eros — is most vulnerable to the cruelty of the world. But even in their most searing moments, these poems are resilient out of necessity, faithful to their account of survival, when survival is the hardest task of all: “So the Bible says, in the beginning, / Blackness. I am alive.”

In this episode we talk about:

Why it's necessary to take risk with your words
Translating experiences into poetry
What happens when you have nothing to lose
What makes poetry so powerful and why its resurgence is no coincidence

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the Chase
0:07.2	Travis Live show here on Creative Live. You know the show where I sit down with amazing humans
0:10.9	and I unpack their brains with the goal of helping you live your dreams and career and hobby
0:14.6	and in life. Our guest today is the one and only Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jericho Brown.
0:21.6	Now, Dr. Brown is an amazing poet, obviously, if you win the Pulitzer, but more than that, he is a speaker of truth.
0:32.8	We cover all kinds of things in this episode besides poetry, But the underpinning of this is how do you
0:39.1	do something that is hard and difficult and beautiful and inspiring and the thing that is your
0:46.6	calling in life, whether that is pursuing a life of words and academics and trying to drive and change in popular culture, or whether it's to leave
0:58.7	the job that you hate to become or be something that you want more than anything else in this
1:04.2	world. I think it's fascinating if I asked 100 people what they want to do. The number of people
1:08.4	who probably say, I want to be a poet is right up
1:11.1	there with the fewest, the smallest number. And so right now you might be sitting there thinking,
1:15.6	I want to be a photographer, a designer, I want to start a startup. If thinking that or saying
1:22.0	those words out loud is intimidating because it seems like a wild, hairy, audacious, call try telling the world that
1:29.6	you're going to be a poet and then becoming that thing and being one of the best in the world
1:33.8	at it. That is the mindset, a little bit of the background of Dr. Jericho Brown. He performs a poem
1:41.3	in this episode, which is absolutely, it is incredible, very, very powerful.
1:48.5	That's at the end of the show.
1:49.9	So many other things, including his, we cover his book, The Tradition, which is the piece that he won the Pulitzer for so powerful.
2:02.7	So if having some daily habits that support your big goals, if having a big audacious goal,
2:08.4	or if you are unclear about the power of words to transform your mindset and popular culture
2:16.4	at large, if any of that is interesting, too, you are going to love
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