桃花直播鈥檚 Shertok shares award-winning poetry debut
Contact: Sarah Nicholas
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥斕一ㄖ辈 State鈥檚 Department of English hosts poet and Assistant Professor Samyak Shertok for a public reading from his debut collection 鈥淣o Rhododendron鈥 Monday [Oct. 20] at 5:30 p.m. in Forum Room 401, Griffis Hall.
Free and open to the public, a Q&A and book signing follow the reading.
A University of Pittsburgh Press publication, Shertok鈥檚 鈥淣o Rhododendron鈥 was selected by acclaimed poet Kimiko Hahn for the 2024 Association of Writers and Writing Program Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.
鈥淭his debut collection is an absolute marvel,鈥 Hahn wrote in a review, praising Shertok鈥檚 writing for fusing grief and survival into art.
鈥淣o Rhododendron鈥 explores the haunting question of how to write about a language that has no script, while bearing witness to personal loss and collective trauma. As one early reviewer described, Shertok鈥檚 poetry 鈥渞ises out of ash and walks toward us鈥 shattered but gleaming.鈥
鈥淚 hope that those attending the reading will leave with an appreciation not only for the power and possibilities of poetry, but for the talent we have at 桃花直播. Dr. Shertok is a brilliant poet and teacher, and we鈥檙e so fortunate to have him as part of the English department,鈥 said Professor Becky Hagenston, who directs the department鈥檚 creative writing program.
Originally from Nepal, Shertok has published poems in The Cincinnati Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, POETRY, Shenandoah, Best New Poets and other leading journals. A finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, he has received fellowships from Aspen Words, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
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