Tuesday, April 28, 2015

And the winner is …

… Philly-born Gregory Pardlo talks about his Pulitzer for poetry.

Pardlo's break from college would last more than four years. He came back to Rutgers, studied abroad in Denmark, and helped run his family's jazz bar in Merchantville. There he met poets and jazz musicians. He even started a poetry-reading series. The passion those artists had for their craft inspired him to be honest with himself about his ambitions.



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