What is Gregory Pardlo?
[[File:Gregory pardlo 1075.JPG|thumb|right|200px|{{Center|Gregory Pardlo reading at Split this Rock 2014}}]] '''Gregory Pardlo''' (born 1968) is an [[Americans|American]] [[poet]], [[writer]], and [[professor]]. His [[book]] ''Digest'' won the 2015 [[Pulitzer Prize]] for Poetry.x In 2007, Pardlo's first book ''Totem'' received the American Poetry Review/ Honickman Prize.<ref>'The American Poetry Review and The Honickman Foundation are pleased to announce the winner of the 2007 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Gregory Pardlo for Totem', ''The American Poetry Review'', Vol. 36, No. 2 (March/April 2007). p. 3</ref> Parldo was born in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]] in 1968.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/gregory-pardlo |title=Gregory Pardlo |author= |date= |website= |publisher=Poetry Foundation |accessdate=21 April 2015}}</ref> He grew up in [[Willingboro]], [[New Jersey]]. Gregory Pardlo received his [[B.A.]] in [[English language|English]] from [[Rutgers University]]. In 2001, he earned his [[M.F.A.]] from [[New York University]]. He was the [[New York Times]] [[Fellow]] in Poetry. He has received other fellowships. He is a fellow at the [[New York Foundation for the Arts]], the [[Cave Canem Foundation]], the MacDowell Artist's Colony, the Seaside Institute. Also, the Lotos Club Foundation, and [[City University of New York,]]. He received a [[translation]] [[grant]] from the [[National Endowment for the Arts]]. He is a [[Teaching Fellow]] at [[Columbia University]]. == Related pages == *[[List of poets from North America]] == References == {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} {{biography-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pardlo, Gregory}} [[Category:1968 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:African-American writers]] [[Category:American poets]] [[Category:New York University alumni]] [[Category:Writers from New Jersey]] [[Category:Writers from Philadelphia]]