Vijay Seshadri in 2014. Photo by Slowking. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Vijay Seshadri (born 1954) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, essayist, and literary critic of significant repute.
Life[]
Seshadri was born in India, and came to the United States in 1959 at the age of 5. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and has lived in many parts of the United States, including the Northwest and the upper west side of Manhattan in New York City.
Seshadri earned a B.A. degree from Oberlin College and an M.F.A. from Columbia University.[1] He was a sometime graduate student in the Ph.D. program in Middle Eastern languages and literature at Columbia University.
He is a former member of the editorial staff of the New Yorker magazine and has taught at the MFA Writing Seminars at Bennington College. He teaches poetry and is the director of the graduate non-fiction writing program at Sarah Lawrence College.
Seshadri's poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in AGNI, Antaeus, Boulevard, Epiphany, The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, The Threepenny Review, Verse, and Western Humanities Review.
Recognition[]
He was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his 2013 collection, 3 Sections.[2]
His other honors include the James Laughlin Prize of the Academy of American Poets and the Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Long Poem Prize. He has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony's Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement, and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.[1]
Publications[]
- Wild Kingdom. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1996.
- The Long Meadow. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2004.
- The Disappearances: New and selected poems. New Delhi & Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: HarperCollins India / India Today Group, 2007.
Vijay Seshadri, "As Is"
- 3 Sections. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2013.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]
See also[]
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Vijay Shesadri, Sarah Lawrence College. Web, Dec. 11, 2018.
- ↑ "India-born poet Vijay Seshadri wins 2014 Pulitzer Prize," Times of India, April 15, 2014. Web, Nov. 23, 2015.
- ↑ Search results = au:Vijay Seshadri, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Nov. 23, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Vijay Seshadri profile & 2 poems at the Academy of American Poets.
- Vijay Seshadri (India 1954) at Poetry International (5 poems)
- Vijay Seshadri at the Poetry Foundation
- Audio / video
- About
- Vijay Seshadri at Sarah Lawrence College
- Jeet Thayl, An Interview With Poet Vijay Seshadri at Poets & Writers, 2004
- Review: On Vijay Seshadri's "3 Sections" at The American Reader
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