{"id":144822,"date":"2020-05-05T14:35:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T18:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=144822"},"modified":"2020-05-05T14:35:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T18:35:35","slug":"jericho-brown-reads-his-pulitzer-prize-winning-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/05\/jericho-brown-reads-his-pulitzer-prize-winning-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Jericho Brown Reads His Pulitzer Prize\u2013Winning Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jericho.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-144823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jericho.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jericho.jpg 950w, 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