Poetry and Abstract Expression with Prageeta Sharma
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Poetry at Bennington—Spring 2023
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | “Poetry and Abstract Expression: What’s Left when the Ancestors are not Oracles? And What is the Aphorism for Me?”
Prageeta Sharma is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Grief Sequence (Wave, 2019), a narrative reflection on grief over the loss of a loved one; Undergloom (Fence, 2013); and Infamous Landscapes (Fence, 2007). She is the founder of the interdisciplinary conference Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, Literary Studies, and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award and a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Four Quartets Prize, she has taught at the New School for Social Research, Goddard College, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the University of Montana-Missoula, and is now the Henry G. Lee professor of English at Pomona College.
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