Gregory Pardlo & Laura Sims at The Poetry Project February 20, 2006

Gregory Pardlo has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts in poetry, and the National Endowment for the Arts for translation. His poems have appeared in anthologies and journals including Ploughshares, Seneca Review, and Volt. Laura Sims?s first book, Practice, Restraint, was the recipient of the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize. She was recently awarded a JUSFC / NEA Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship to spend six months in Japan next year. She lives in Madison, WI, where she teaches creative writing and composition.