The Tradition is a 2019 poetry collection by American poet Jericho Brown.

[2] The collection won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

[3] Judges of the prize called the book "a collection of masterful lyrics that combine delicacy with historical urgency in their loving evocation of bodies vulnerable to hostility and violence.

[5] Publishers Weekly called it "searing" and wrote that Jericho's duplex form "yields compelling results".

[6] Elizabeth Lund of The Washington Post called it "compelling and forceful because it wonderfully balances the dark demands of memory and an indomitable strength.