Fort Not (2017), which
Publishers Weekly called a “fabulously eccentric, hypnotic, and hypervigilant debut.” She is a member of the Belladonna Collaborative, a feminist poetry collective, small press, and event series. Skillings received her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, where she was a Creative Writing Teaching Fellow in 2017. She teaches creative writing at Yale and Columbia and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Emily Skillings on Granta.com
I’ve always wanted to yell, ‘My leg!
My leg!’ after a great accident.
In this fantasy I am myself
but also an old man in a golfing costume
walking alone down a country road –
distracted by the slightly annoying and toxic
first green of spring, eyes overflowing
with the high-pitched, adolescent hum
that oft accompanies my idleness –
when a large branch topples down on me.
Before this happens I am thinking of you,
so in a sense you are the true accident.
‘Crushed again!’ I moan to no one
down in the dirt
The ditch, she comforts me,
her pocked surface a trove for sight.
John Langdon
Cassandra Agredo has grown the soup kitchen at St. Francis Xavier church into the multi-service agency that is Xavier Mission. As the organization’s executive director, Agredo and her team provide an array of services and opportunities to New Yorkers in need. They prefer to be called a “for-impact” instead of a “nonprofit” organization, focusing on things they can change instead of those they can’t.
Direct service work has always been a part of Agredo’s life. When she was growing up in Rhode Island, her father worked at the Department of Human Services, and once the first soup kitchen opened, her parents would bring Agredo along while they volunteered. She continued on this path and obtained a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work from Fordham University. Since then, her passion to enact positive change has shone both through her work at Xavier Mission and Hunger Free America, a national organization set to end domestic hunger, where she’s a
Pulitzer Prizes Fast Facts
Here’s a look at the Pulitzer Prizes. The prizes are presented every spring in recognition of achievements in journalism, music, literature and drama.
Other Facts
June 11, 2021 – The Pulitzer Prize winners and nominated finalists are scheduled to be announced. The announcement, originally scheduled for April 19, is postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The pronunciation of Pulitzer is “pull it sir.”
Categories
Currently, there are 22 categories and five fellowships.
Journalism: Public Service, Breaking News Reporting, Investigative Reporting, Explanatory Reporting, Local Reporting, National Reporting, International Reporting, Feature Writing, Commentary, Criticism, Editorial Writing, Editorial Cartoon, Breaking News Photography, Feature Photography, Audio Reporting.
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