Gregory Pardlo

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

Gregory Pardlo(born November 24, 1968) [1] is an American poet, writer, and professor. His 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]

Contents

Life and work

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. [6] His younger brother is Robbie Pardlo, an American musician formerly of R&B group City High. [7] His father, Gregory Pardlo Sr., is a former air traffic controller who participated in the air traffic controllers' strike of 1981. [8]

Gregory Pardlo received his BA in English from Rutgers University-Camden, an MFA from New York University as a New York Times Fellow in Poetry, and an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University; he is also a doctoral candidate in English at the City University of New York. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 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. [9]

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 . [10] His poem "Wishing Well" appeared in The Best American Poetry 2014, guest edited by Terrance Hayes, following initial publication in Painted Bride Quarterly. [11] 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. [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 at Columbia 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 at NYU Abu Dhabi. [15]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections
Translations
List of poems
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected
Allegory2021Pardlo, Gregory (March 1, 2021). "Allegory". The New Yorker. 97 (2): 40.

Anthologized writings

Prose

Memoirs

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Bibliography notes
  1. ↑ "Poetry Foundation "Harriet" Blog". Archived from the original on 2011-02-19. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
  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

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References

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  2. 1 2 GWU English Faculty Page
  3. ↑ "2008 Essence Literary 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. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Gregory Pardlo", From the Fishouse, Archived January 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Paolino, Tammy (June 12, 2015). "Poems, perspective and a Pulitzer". Courier-Post . Retrieved February 13, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Welcome to pardlo.com". pardlo.com. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
  8. ↑ Pardlo, Gregory (February 12, 2017). "The cost of defying the president". The New Yorker . Retrieved February 13, 2017.
  9. 1 2 "Written By Himself", The American Poetry Review. Archived January 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ Sarah Kuczynski. "Prof. Pardlo featured in 2010 vol. of The Best American Poetry". GW English News. Department of English, George Washington University. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Greg Pardlo: Wishing Well", Painted Bride Quarterly, March 30, 2013.
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  15. ↑ "Gregory Pardlo, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice in Literature & Creative Writing". NYU Abu Dhabi. October 1, 2023. Retrieved October 28, 2023.
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