An Evening with Gregory Pardlo & Reginald Dwayne Betts

Pulitzer Prize Winner Gregory Pardlo & Guggenheim Fellow Reginald Dwayne Betts will read from their most recent collections.

Gregory Pardlo’s ​collection​ Digest (Four Way Books) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other honors​ include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is Poetry Editor of Virginia Quarterly Review. Air Traffic, a memoir in essays, was released by Knopf in April.

Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet and memoirist. His collections include Bastards of the Reagan Era; the 2010 NAACP Image Award winning memoir, A Question of Freedom; and the poetry collection, Shahid Reads His Own Palm. Dwayne is currently enrolled in the PhD in Law Program at the Yale Law School. He has earned a JD from the Yale Law School, an MFA from Warren Wilson, and a BA from the University of Maryland.