In “Hebrews 13” by Jericho Brown, a narrator says: “my lover and my brother both knocked at my door.” The heat is turned on, scalding coffee is offered and hastily swallowed, and silence is the soundtrack. What an exquisitely awkward triangle it is, and what a human, beautiful, and loving shape that can be.Jericho Brown is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, where he also directs the university’s creative writing program. His books of poetry are <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/jericho-brown-poems-as-teachers-episode-5/#media">The New Testament</a>, <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/jericho-brown-poems-as-teachers-episode-5/#media">Please</a>, and <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/jericho-brown-poems-as-teachers-episode-5/#media">The Tradition</a>, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020.<a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/jericho-brown-poems-as-teachers-episode-5/#transcript">Find the transcript</a> for this show at onbeing.org.This is the fifth episode of "Poems as Teachers," a special seven-part miniseries on conflict and the human condition.We’re pleased to offer Jericho Brown’s poem, and invite you to read <a href="https://poetryunbound.substack.com">Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack</a>, read <a href="https://linktr.ee/poetryunbound">the Poetry Unbound book</a>, or <a href="http://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound/">listen back to all our episodes</a>.

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