Bangalore-born Vijay Seshadri wins the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

[raagadevan]

The 2014 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

Winner: Vijay Seshadri

Citation: For a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) - Awarded to "3 Sections," by Vijay Seshadri (Graywolf Press),
a compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness, from birth to dementia, in a voice that is by turns witty and grave, compassionate and remorseless.

Other Finalists: Also nominated as finalists in this category were "The Sleep of Reason," by Morri Creech (The Waywiser Press), a book of masterly poems that capture
the inner experience of a man in mid-life who is troubled by mortality and the passage of time, traditional themes that are made to feel new; and "The Big Smoke,"
by Adrian Matejka (Penguin), an imaginative work by a commanding poet who engages the history and mythology of larger-than-life boxer Jack Johnson.

http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2014-Poetry

[raagadevan]

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Vijay Seshadri was born in Bangalore, India, in 1954 and came to America at the age of five. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, where his father taught chemistry at Ohio State University. He has lived in many parts of the country, including the Pacific Northwest—where he spent five years working in the fishing and logging industries—and New York's Upper West Side, where he was a sometime graduate student in Columbia's PhD program in Middle Eastern Languages and Literature.

His poetry collections include 3 Sections: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2013), which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2014, The Long Meadow (Graywolf Press, 2004), which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Wild Kingdom (1996). His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in AGNI, The American Scholar, Antaeus, Bomb, Boulevard, Lumina, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Shenandoah, The Southwest Review, The Threepenny Review, Verse, Western Humanities Review, The Yale Review, the Times Book Review, the Philadelphia Enquirer, Bomb, The San Diego Reader, and TriQuarterly, and in many anthologies, including Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets, Contours of the Heart, Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times, and The Best American Poetry 1997 and 2003.

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 holds an AB degree from Oberlin College and an MFA from Columbia University. He currently teaches poetry and nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1119

[harishkumar09]

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