Poet Prageeta Sharma to join Vanderbilt Reading Series – February 19

Posted by dicintm on Wednesday, January 28, 2026 in event, graduate, reading series, spotlight, undergraduate.

Thursday, February 19
Book-signing, 6:30 PM
Reading, 7:00 PM

Vanderbilt Special Collections Library
1101 19th Ave South
Nashville, TN 37212

Prageeta Sharma is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently, Onement Won (Wave Books, 2025) and Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019). Her honors and awards include a 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and a Howard Foundation Award. She has taught at the New School, Goddard College, and the University of Montana-Missoula. She is the Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College as well as the founder and president of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, and Literary Studies.

This event is part of the Gertrude C. & Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series.