Department of English Poetry & Prose Series
A reading with poet Gregory Pardlo, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his evocative collection, DIGEST (Four Way Books).
Location
Sanborn House Library
Sponsored by
English Department
Audience
Public
Gregory Pardlo's evocative collection Digest (Four Way Books) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Digest was also shortlisted for the 2015 NAACP Image Award and was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; his first collection Totem was selected by Brenda Hillman for the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007. He is also the author of Air Traffic, a memoir in essays forthcoming from Knopf. Pardlo joined the faculty of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Rutgers University-Camden in the fall of 2016. He lives with his family in Brooklyn.
Location
Sanborn House Library
Sponsored by
English Department
Audience
Public