2007 Winner, American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry for Totem
2007 Finalist, National Poetry Series for Totem
2007 Semifinalist, Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award for Totem
2005 Finalist, Cave Cavem Book Prize
2004 Winner, Lotos Club Foundation Award for Creative Writing
2003 Nominee, Pushcart Prize
2001 Honorable Mention, New Millennium Writings Prize
Bibliographyedit
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Poetryedit
Collections
Totem (Copper Canyon Press, 2007), ISBN 9780977639526[a][b][c][d]
Digest (Four Way Books, 2014), ISBN 9781935536505[e]
Translations
Pencil of Rays and Spiked Mace (from the Danish of Niels Lyngsø; BookThug, 2004), ISBN 9780973564013
List of poems
Title
Year
First published
Reprinted/collected
Allegory
2021
Pardlo, Gregory (March 1, 2021). "Allegory". The New Yorker. 97 (2): 40.
Anthologized writingsedit
“Written by Himself”, The Best American Poetry 2010 (Scribner, 2010)
“Marginalia”, So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (Akashic Books, 2010)
“Double Dutch”, From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea Press, 2009)
“Man Reading in Bed by a Window with Bugs”, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (University of Georgia Press, 2009)
“Winter After the Strike”, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006)
“Arsonist” and “Future as Evaporation”, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World Press, 2002)
“Harvest: A Line Drawing”, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Three Rivers Press, 2001)
Proseedit
“Revisiting the Racial Mountain” (PEN American Center, 2010)
“A Way of No Way: Toward Constructing a Black Male Poetic” (Painted Bride Quarterly #75, 2006)
"'Hurrah for Schoelcher!'" (Drunken Boat 20, 2014)
Memoirs
Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America (Knopf, 2018), ISBN 978-1524731762
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Bibliography notes
^"Poetry Foundation "Harriet" Blog". Archived from the original on 2011-02-19. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
^Jordan Davis, "Totem – Gregory Pardlo" (review), The Constant Critic, May 1, 2008.
^"(Inter/Re)view of Greg Pardlo’s TOTEM" (audio), Post No Ills, August 5, 2008.
^"recommended: gregory pardlo", Lots and Lots of Neat blog, August 10, 2009.
^"2008 Essence Literary Award Nominees", aalbc.com.
^Tess Malone (September 11, 2009). "Introducing Gregory Pardlo: GW's Newest Poet & Professor". GW English News. Department of English, George Washington University. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
^"Gregory Pardlo",
From the Fishouse, Archived January 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^Paolino, Tammy (June 12, 2015). "Poems, perspective and a Pulitzer". Courier-Post. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
^"Welcome to pardlo.com". pardlo.com. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
^Pardlo, Gregory (February 12, 2017). "The cost of defying the president". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
^ ab"Written By Himself", The American Poetry Review. Archived January 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^Sarah Kuczynski. "Prof. Pardlo featured in 2010 vol. of The Best American Poetry". GW English News. Department of English, George Washington University. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
^"Greg Pardlo: Wishing Well", Painted Bride Quarterly, March 30, 2013.
^ abc"pardlo.com: Biography". pardlo.com. Archived from the original on April 22, 2015. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
^"La Petite Zine - Gregory Pardlo". lapetitezine.org. Archived from the original on April 23, 2015. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
^"Gregory Pardlo, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice in Literature & Creative Writing". NYU Abu Dhabi. October 1, 2023. Retrieved October 28, 2023.
External linksedit
Wikiquote has quotations related to Gregory Pardlo.
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Gregory Pardlo website
Tammy Paolino, "Poems, perspective and a Pulitzer", Courier-Post, June 12, 2015
Erica Wright, "Gregory Pardlo: The Poem as Pursuit" (interview), Guernica, March 10, 2015
Gregory Pardlo on Totem, CUNY Radio podcast
Interview: Poem Of The Week
"An Awe-Inspiring Evening with Greg Pardlo", GWU English News, Department of English, George Washington University
"Introducing Gregory Pardlo", GWU English News
Audio: Poems & Discussion, From the Fishouse: an audio archive of emerging poets
Audio: Poets.org
Three Poems, The Awl
"Gregpry Pardlo: How to pretend you've read a book you haven't", Literary Hub, April 11, 2018