{"id":6439,"date":"2026-01-28T17:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=6439"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:39:16","slug":"poet-prageeta-sharma-to-join-vanderbilt-reading-series-february-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/poet-prageeta-sharma-to-join-vanderbilt-reading-series-february-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet Prageeta Sharma to join Vanderbilt Reading Series \u2013 February 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, February 19<\/strong>
\nBook-signing, 6:30 PM<\/strong>
\nReading, 7:00 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vanderbilt Special Collections Library
\n1101 19th Ave South
\nNashville, TN 37212<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Prageeta Sharma\u00a0is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently,\u00a0Onement Won<\/i><\/a> (Wave Books, 2025) and Grief Sequence<\/i><\/a> (Wave Books, 2019). Her honors and awards include a 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship<\/a> and a Howard Foundation Award<\/a>. She has taught at the New School, Goddard College, and the University of Montana-Missoula. She is the Henry G. Lee Professor of English<\/a> at Pomona College as well as the founder and president of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, and Literary Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This event is part of the Gertrude C. & Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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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\u00a0is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently,\u00a0Onement Won (Wave Books, 2025) and Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019). Her honors and awards include a 2025 NEA Creative…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":6446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,18,15,6,17],"tags":[5],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-28-115346.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6466,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions\/6466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}