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I'm Christa Tippett.

Next, my unedited conversation with Jericho Brown, who's just won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize

for poetry, for the book in progress we talked about in this show, the tradition.

There is, as always, a shorter, produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.

Good afternoon, and welcome to poetry and on-being with Christa Tippett and Jericho Brown.

Yes, Sugarverse, yes, yes.

We have a rare opportunity to sit in on a private conversation with Christa and Jericho this afternoon.

Thank you for joining us.

Here at the Dodge Poetry Festival, we've always felt that one of the essential qualities

of poetry is the questions it asks, that it continuously asks questions about what it means

to be a human being.

It doesn't always give the answers, but it asks important questions.

For over 15 years on being and on other radio programs, Christa Tippett has been asking

those same essential questions to poets, artists, musicians, astrophysicists, philosophers,

mathematicians, a whole amazing array of people with very different points of view.

So it seemed to us an absolute natural to bring together her questioning, curious mind,

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