Retreat runs three days at Garrison Institute

A Garrison Institute workshop, “Imagining Your Voice on the Page,” will bring poets Gregory Pardlo and Robert Polito to the area for a weekend retreat starting Dec. 16. Register at garrisoninstitute.org.

Gregory Pardlo (photo provided)
Gregory Pardlo (photo provided)

Pardlo was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2015 for his collection Digest. He teaches in the creative writing program at Rutgers University at Camden. Polito is the founding director of the graduate writing program and the Riggio Honors Program at the New School and a former president of the Poetry Foundation in Chicago. His most poetry collection is Hollywood & God.

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