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Enjoy readings from poet Samyak Shertok's No Rhododendron, winner of the 2024 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. More details to come soon!
Samyak Shertok’s poems appear in The Cincinnati Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. His honors include the Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Poetry, the Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, and the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. He has received fellowships from Aspen Words, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Originally from Nepal, he was the inaugural Hughes Fellow in Poetry at Southern Methodist University and teaches creative writing at Mississippi State University.
With The Well, Samyak has collaborated with Mindful Poetry Moments, where most recently his poem "A Blessing" inspired a section of Mindful Poetry Moments 2024.
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