Gregory Pardlo on Sobriety & the Unknown

“Part of the necessary process was not imagining what was on the other side, giving up a desire to know what was on the other side.”

Gregory Pardlo is the author of Digest, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Totem, winner of the 2007 American Poetry Review / Honickman Prize, and translator from the Danish of Niels Lyngsø’s, Pencil of Rays and Spiked Mace. He is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Public Library's Cullman Center, the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a fellowship for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts. His most recent book is Air Traffic, a memoir in essays published by Knopf in 2018.