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Gregory Pardlo, the 2015 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, will speak on the Stony Brook Southampton campus on Wednesday, March 2, in a free event that is open to the public.
Mr. Pardlo will read from his award winning poetry collection “Digest,” which followed his acclaimed debut collection, “Totem.” After the readings, he will engage in a Q&A with the audience and sign books.
The evening is part of the Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Creative Writing and Literature program’s Writers Speak Wednesdays series.
Mr. Pardlo, who lives in Brooklyn, teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Rutgers University-Camden in New Jersey. His poems have appeared in The Nation, Ploughshares, Tin House, the Norton Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poetry and Best American Poetry, among more publications.
In addition to winning a Pulitzer, “Digest” was shortlisted for the 2015 NAACP Image Award and was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. “Totem” won the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007.
Other honors Pardlo has received include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Upcoming Writers Speak Wednesdays guests include MFA in Creative Writing faculty members Ursula Hegi, Susan Scarf Merrell, Roger Rosenblatt, Julie Sheehan and Lou Ann Walker on March 9; novelist Terese Svoboda in conversation with poet and MFA in Creative Writing director Julie Sheehan on March 23; Robert MacNeil in conversation with Roger Rosenblatt on April 6; and Erica Jong on April 27.
Writers Speak with Gregory Pardlo takes place in the Radio Lounge on the second floor of Chancellors Hall at Stony Brook Southampton, 239 Montauk Highway, Southampton, on Wednesday, March 2, at 7 p.m. A brief reception, beginning at 6:30 p.m., will precede the reading and discussion. For more information, call (631) 632-5030 or visit stonybrook.edu/mfa.
on Feb 24, 2016