A Celebration of Maya Angelou's Poetic Legacy with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Gregory Pardlo

Presented Alongside the First Public Exhibition of Dr. Angelou’s Art Collection by the Academy of American PoetsCave Canem Foundation, and Swann Auction Galleries

Gregory Pardlo is the author of two poetry collections, Digest (Four Way Books, 2014), which received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and was shortlisted for the 2015 NAACP Image Award, and Totem, which received the American Poetry Review/Honickman Prize in 2007.

On September 15, 2015 Swann Galleries will auction The Art Collection of Maya AngelouAt 75, Swann is the oldest specialty auction house in New York. The auction of Dr. Angelou's collection will be preceded by a public exhibition of the work. For more information about the auction or the exhibition, please visit swanngalleries.com.

The event is free, but R.S.V.P.s are required: http://bit.ly/1WfHXD6