He’s famous for inventing his own form of poem called the Duplex, and he’s a professor of writing and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia – a mere hour from where I live just south of where his pen graces his pages each day. I own his book The Tradition, but I couldn’t find it anywhere and am grateful that our public library in my small town had a copy. You must check out Jericho Brown, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet who is as real as poets get on a deeply personal level. I’ve written a cento poem using his existing lines from this collection to form a new poem below.
You can read more about Jericho Brown on his website, and here and here.
Two Words
A poem is a gesture toward home
or the woman for whom it was a gift.
None of our fights ended where they began.
Long ago, we used two words.
Lines taken from, in this order: Duplex; After Avery R. Young; Duplex: Cento; The Legend of Big and Fine.
Common Threads 
I got distracted by our stack for this last week. Love, love, love Billy Collins. Just jumped on my public library app and placed one of his books on hold! Thanks for the nudge. Your expertise in poetry is outstanding and pushing me to spend more time reading and writing poetry! Thank you!
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Thank you, Sally! Many of the books I’ve used this month are inter-library loans from across the state. I pick them up right across the street from where I work at our small-town library. The world is truly at our feet when we have a library card.
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