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Gregory Pardlo
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David Woo
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Gabrielle Bellot
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Gregory Pardlo on the Psychology of Tennis, Historical Omissions, and Wanting to Be an Architect
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By
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The Battle for the Black Soul: On the Poetic Embodiment of the Black Preacher
Gregory Pardlo Contextualizes James Weldon Johnson’s
God’s Trombones
for the Contemporary Era
By
Gregory Pardlo
| February 21, 2023
Announcing this year's class of PERIPLUS fellows.
By
Literary Hub
| February 2, 2022
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Podcast
By
Thresholds
| November 10, 2021
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By
Literary Hub
| December 18, 2020
Gregory Pardlo: A Letter to Juneteenth
By
Gregory Pardlo
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By
Freeman's
| December 20, 2019
Dear Yusef Komunyakaa:
A Letter From Gregory Pardlo
On
Neon Vernacular
and the Long Half-Life of Double Consciousness
By
Gregory Pardlo
| August 19, 2019
Gregory Pardlo: How to Pretend You've Read a Book You Haven't
The Author of
Air Traffic
on the Books in His Life
By
Literary Hub
| April 11, 2018
Gregory Pardlo on Form, His Father, and Not Writing a Book About Race
The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Talks his New Memoir in Essays,
Air Traffic
By
Kristen Martin
| April 9, 2018
Surviving the Ordinary: Why We Need Memoirs of Regular Lives
And 14 Books for Your How-to-Be-a-Person Memoir Shelf
By
Mary Laura Philpott
| April 9, 2018
Can Literature Heal the Scars of a Nation?
Nayomi Munaweera Reports from Sri Lanka's Galle Literary Festival
By
Nayomi Munaweera
| February 22, 2016
The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 15 to 6
Counting Down the Year That Was, One Story at a Time
By
Literary Hub
| December 29, 2015
Tracy K. Smith Talks to Gregory Pardlo
On Poetry, Manifestos, and David Bowie vs. Elton John
By
Literary Hub
| October 29, 2015
7 Novels That Explore Motherhood's Complexities
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by
Donna Freitas
To Break Up with Friends, or to Murder Them: 5 Novels Featuring Fatal Friendship Failings
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by
Jenna Satterthwaite
The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
November 4, 2025
by
Christina Henry
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"