
View streaming video of Gregory Pardlo: December 1, 2015
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Gregory Pardlo
His second book of poetry, Digest (Four Way Books), was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for 2015.
Of the book, Pardlo writes, “My wife and I had just had our second child when I started writing Digest. The poems reflect my anxiety around being the father of young children. When I began studying for the Ph.D., I grew conscious of the way, mentally, I had to change gears in order to move between scholarly and creative work. I wanted to write poems that reflect how much I enjoy learning and sharing what I learn, and I didn’t want to have to ‘change tracks’ to write them. The poems in Digest grow out of that effort as well.”