Join us Wednesday, August 21st at the Castle for presentations by current Fellows, Brittany Perham and Gregory Pardlo.
Brittany Perham, Fellow (Writing, USA)
Brittany Perham is the author of Double Portrait, which received the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was a Finalist for the Northern California Book Award; The Curiosities and, with Kim Addonizio, the collaborative chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction. She has received the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Memorial Award given by Southwest Review, the Magliocco Prize for Poetry given by the Bellevue Literary Review and a fellowship from the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. She is a Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University.
Gregory Pardlo, Fellow (Writing, USA)
Gregory Pardlo’s ​collection​ Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other honors​ include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts in translation; his first collection Totem was selected by Brenda Hillman for the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007. He is Poetry Editor of Virginia Quarterly Review and teaches in the graduate Creative Writing Program at Rutgers University-Camden.
Welcome Cocktail at 6:00 PM
Presentations at 6:15 PM
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