Past: An Evening with Pulitzer Prize Poet Vijay Seshadri

Vijay Seshadri, a Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, will perform a public reading at Southeast on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 7 to 8 p.m. in the Glenn Auditorium, Dempster Hall. The event is free and open to the public, and is funded by the Dorothy and Wedel Nilsen Visiting Writers Series and Southeast Missouri State University Press.

Seshadri is the author of three collections of poetry, including "3 Sections," which was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other collections of poems include James Laughlin Award-winner The Long Meadow (Graywolf Press, 2004) and Wild Kingdom (1996). His poems, essays, and reviews have been published internationally. Seshadri has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been awarded The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Long Poem Prize and the MacDowell Colony’s Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement.

He currently teaches prose and nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.