April Poetry Lessons: Gregory Pardlo

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 14, 2016

We're celebrating National Poetry Month by bringing four recent Pulitzer Prize winners who teach in the area on the show to give "master classes" and weekly assignments.

Have you done your homework for this week? Check out the assignment here.

This week's conversation and assignment come from Gregory Pardlo, author of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry book, Digest (Four Way, 2014), who will join the faculty at Rutgers University-Camden in the fall of 2016.

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