Moonstone @ Brandywine Workshop
728 South Broad Street
Moonstone Gold
A special series of ticketed interviews and readings
single program ticket: $15.00; series subscription (three programs): $35.00
Books will be available for purchase and to be autographed.
Sunday November 8, 2015 – 3pm
Gregory Pardlo
Welcome Gregory Pardlo back to Philadelphia for an interview and reading from his new poetry collection Digest ($15.95 Four Way Books). Gregory Pardlo is author of Digest, which won the Pulitzer prize for Poetry in 2015. His first book, Totem, received the American Poetry Review/ Honickman Prize in 2007. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Callaloo, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, Tin House, and Best American Poetry 2010, as well as several anthologies, including Angles of Ascent, the Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. He is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, the Lotos Club Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and The New York Times. He is an associate editor of Callaloo, and his second collection, Digest, was published by Four Way Books in 2014. In 2015, he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Digest.
Gregory will be interviewed by Leonard Gontarek.
Leonard Gontarek is the author of five books of poems, including, He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs from Hanging Loose Press. His poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Verse, Poetry Northwest and The Best American Poetry, among others. He conducts poetry workshops throughout the Philadelphia area and is host of the Green Line Café Reading And Interview Series. In 2014 he created the first Philly Poetry Day. He is a contributing editor for
The American Poetry Review.
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