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Jordan is joined by Pulitzer-winning poet and memoirist Gregory Pardlo \u2014 currently teaching at NYU in Abu Dhabi \u2014 to talk about sobriety, understanding the stories of one\u2019s life, and answering the self-imposed question \u201cWhat god are you serving, Pardlo, when you write X?\u201d

Gregory Pardlo was born in Philadelphia in 1968. He\xa0is the author of Air Traffic (Knopf, 2018), a memoir in essays, and the poetry collections\xa0Digest\xa0(Four Way Books, 2014), which received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and was shortlisted for\xa0the 2015 NAACP Image Award, and\xa0Totem (American Poetry Review), which was selected by Brenda Hillman for the\xa0American Poetry Review/Honickman Prize in 2007. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, among others. He is the poetry editor of\xa0Virginia Quarterly Review\xa0and is currently teaching at NYU in Abu Dhabi.

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