Gregory Pardlo

Gregory Pardlo

Pardlo at the 2015 Texas Book Festival.
Born November 24, 1968
Philadelphia
Alma mater Rutgers University-Camden,
New York University
Genre Poetry
Notable awards Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Gregory Pardlo (born November 24, 1968)[1] is an American poet, writer, and professor, whose book Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Poet Lore, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and on National Public Radio.[2] His work has been praised for its “language simultaneously urban and highbrow… snapshots of a life that is so specific it becomes universal.”[3]

Gregory Pardlo’s first volume of poems, Totem, was chosen by Brenda Hillman as the winner of the 2007 American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Prize, distributed by Copper Canyon Press.[4] The manuscript for Totem was also a semifinalist for the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and a finalist for the inaugural Essence Magazine Literary Award in Poetry.[2] Pardlo is the translator of the full-length poetry collection Pencil of Rays and Spike Mace by Danish poet Niels Lyngsø.[5]

Born in Philadelphia, Pardlo grew up in Willingboro, New Jersey. His younger brother is Robbie Pardlo, an American musician formerly of R&B group City High.[6]

Gregory Pardlo received his B.A. in English from Rutgers University-Camden and his M.F.A. from New York University as a New York Times Fellow in Poetry. He has been the recipient of additional fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Cave Canem Foundation, the MacDowell Artist's Colony, the Seaside Institute, the Lotos Club Foundation, and City University of New York, as well as a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.[7]

Pardlo’s poem “Written by Himself” appeared in The Best American Poetry 2010 anthology series edited by David Lehman and Amy Gerstler, following initial publication in The American Poetry Review.[8] His poem "Wishing Well" appeared in The Best American Poetry 2014, guest edited by Terrance Hayes, following initial publication in Painted Bride Quarterly.[9]

Pardlo serves as an Associate Editor for the literary journal Callaloo. He has led writing workshops for the PEN American Center, American Poetry Review / Young Voices Program, The Frost Place Conference, Callaloo Creative Writer’s Workshop, and Jamaica’s Calabash International Literary Festival, among others. He is a Teaching Fellow at Columbia University.[10]

In 2016, Pardlo accepted a tenured faculty position with the English department at his alma mater, Rutgers University-Camden.[11] He has previously taught at Columbia University,[10] George Washington University, Medgar Evers College, The New School University, John Jay College, Hunter College, and NYU.[7][10][12]

Awards and honors

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

Translations

Anthologized writings

Selected prose

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