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Gregory Pardlo

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Gregory Pardlo
Pardlo at the 2015 Texas Book Festival.
Pardlo at the 2015 Texas Book Festival.
Born(1968-11-24)November 24, 1968(age 55)
Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,U.S.
EducationRutgers University, Camden(BA)
New York University(MFA)
Columbia University(MFA)
City University of New York
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Poetry

Gregory Pardlo(born November 24, 1968)[1]is an American poet, writer, and professor. His bookDigestwon the 2015Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared inThe American Poetry Review,Callaloo,Poet Lore,Harvard Review,Ploughshares,and onNational 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]

Life and work[edit]

Pardlo's first volume of poems,Totem,was chosen byBrenda Hillmanas the winner of the 2007American Poetry Review/ Honickman First Book Prize, distributed byCopper Canyon Press.[4]The manuscript forTotemwas also a semifinalist for theWalt Whitman Awardfrom theAcademy of American Poets,a finalist for theNational Poetry Series,and a finalist for the inauguralEssenceMagazine Literary Award in Poetry.[2]Pardlo is the translator of the full-length poetry collectionPencil of Rays and Spike Maceby Danish poet Niels Lyngsø.[5]

Born inPhiladelphia,Pardlo grew up inWillingboro, New Jersey.[6]His younger brother isRobbie Pardlo,an American musician formerly of R&B groupCity High.[7]His father, Gregory Pardlo Sr., is a formerair traffic controllerwho participated in theair traffic controllers' strike of 1981.[8]

Gregory Pardlo received his BA in English fromRutgers University-Camden,an MFA fromNew York Universityas aNew York TimesFellow in Poetry, and an MFA in nonfiction fromColumbia University;he is also a doctoral candidate in English at theCity University of New York.He has been the recipient of fellowships from theJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,theNew York Foundation for the Arts,theCave Canem Foundation,theMacDowell Artist's Colony,the Seaside Institute, theLotos ClubFoundation, andCity University of New York,as well as a translation grant from theNational Endowment for the Arts.[9]

Pardlo's poem “Written by Himself” appeared inThe Best American Poetry2010anthology series edited byDavid LehmanandAmy Gerstler,following initial publication inThe American Poetry Review.[10]His poem "Wishing Well" appeared inThe Best American Poetry 2014,guest edited byTerrance Hayes,following initial publication inPainted Bride Quarterly.[11] Pardlo serves as an Associate Editor for the literary journalCallaloo.He has led writing workshops for thePEN American Center,American Poetry Review/ Young Voices Program,The Frost Place Conference,CallalooCreative Writer's Workshop, andJamaica’s Calabash International Literary Festival, among others. He is a Teaching Fellow atColumbia University.[12]

In 2016, Pardlo accepted a tenure-track faculty position with the English department at his alma mater, Rutgers University-Camden.[13]He has taught atColumbia University,[12]George Washington University,Medgar Evers College,The New School University,John Jay College,Hunter College,and NYU.[9][12][14]

As of 2023, Pardlo is Visiting Associate Professor of Practice in Literature & Creative Writing atNYU Abu Dhabi.[15]

Awards and honors[edit]

  • 2015 Winner,Pulitzer Prize for poetryforDigest
  • 2014 Selection,The Best American Poetry 2014for "Wishing Well"
  • 2010 Selection,The Best American Poetry 2010for "Written by Himself"
  • 2008 Finalist,EssenceMagazine Literary Award in Poetry forTotem
  • 2008 Selection,ColdfrontMagazine Best First Books of 2007 forTotem
  • 2008 Nominee,Pushcart Prize
  • 2007 Winner,American Poetry Review/ Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry forTotem
  • 2007 Finalist, National Poetry Series forTotem
  • 2007 Semifinalist, Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award forTotem
  • 2005 Finalist, Cave Cavem Book Prize
  • 2004 Winner, Lotos Club Foundation Award for Creative Writing
  • 2003 Nominee, Pushcart Prize
  • 2001 Honorable Mention, New Millennium Writings Prize

Bibliography[edit]

Poetry[edit]

Collections
  • Totem(Copper Canyon Press, 2007),ISBN9780977639526[a][b][c][d]
  • Digest(Four Way Books, 2014),ISBN9781935536505[e]
Translations
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Allegory 2021 Pardlo, Gregory (March 1, 2021)."Allegory".The New Yorker.97(2): 40.

Anthologized writings[edit]

  • “Written by Himself”,The Best American Poetry 2010(Scribner, 2010)
  • “Marginalia”,So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival(Akashic Books, 2010)
  • “Double Dutch”,From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great(Persea Press, 2009)
  • “Man Reading in Bed by a Window with Bugs”,Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry(University of Georgia Press, 2009)
  • “Winter After the Strike”,Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade(University of Michigan Press, 2006)
  • “Arsonist” and “Future as Evaporation”,Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art(Third World Press, 2002)
  • “Harvest: A Line Drawing”,Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam(Three Rivers Press, 2001)

Prose[edit]

Memoirs

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Bibliography notes
  1. ^"Poetry Foundation" Harriet "Blog".Archived fromthe originalon 2011-02-19.Retrieved2010-10-07.
  2. ^Jordan Davis,"Totem – Gregory Pardlo" (review),The Constant Critic, May 1, 2008.
  3. ^"(Inter/Re)view of Greg Pardlo’s TOTEM"(audio), Post No Ills, August 5, 2008.
  4. ^"recommended: gregory pardlo",Lots and Lots of Neat blog, August 10, 2009.
  5. ^2015 Pulitzer Prize for poetry

References[edit]

  1. ^"Gregory Pardlo’s ‘Digest’ wins Pulitzer Prize for poetry",Black Kudos.
  2. ^abGWU English Faculty Page
  3. ^"2008EssenceLiterary Award Nominees ",aalbc.com.
  4. ^Tess Malone (September 11, 2009)."Introducing Gregory Pardlo: GW's Newest Poet & Professor".GW English News.Department of English, George Washington University.RetrievedApril 21,2015.
  5. ^"Gregory Pardlo", From the Fishouse,ArchivedJanuary 16, 2011, at theWayback Machine
  6. ^Paolino, Tammy (June 12, 2015)."Poems, perspective and a Pulitzer".Courier-Post.RetrievedFebruary 13,2017.
  7. ^"Welcome to pardlo.com".pardlo.com.RetrievedApril 21,2015.
  8. ^Pardlo, Gregory (February 12, 2017)."The cost of defying the president".The New Yorker.RetrievedFebruary 13,2017.
  9. ^ab"Written By Himself",The American Poetry Review.ArchivedJanuary 5, 2011, at theWayback Machine
  10. ^Sarah Kuczynski."Prof. Pardlo featured in 2010 vol. of The Best American Poetry".GW English News.Department of English, George Washington University.RetrievedApril 21,2015.
  11. ^"Greg Pardlo: Wishing Well",Painted Bride Quarterly,March 30, 2013.
  12. ^abc"pardlo.com: Biography".pardlo.com.Archived fromthe originalon April 22, 2015.RetrievedApril 21,2015.
  13. ^Paolino, Tammy (February 11, 2016)."Pulitzer-winning poet joins Rutgers-Camden faculty".Courier-Post.RetrievedFebruary 13,2017.
  14. ^"La Petite Zine - Gregory Pardlo".lapetitezine.org.Archived fromthe originalon April 23, 2015.RetrievedApril 21,2015.
  15. ^"Gregory Pardlo, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice in Literature & Creative Writing".NYU Abu Dhabi.October 1, 2023.RetrievedOctober 28,2023.

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