Visiting Poets Soham Patel and Prageeta Sharma

Thursday, April 23, 2026 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Fenwick Library, Room 2001

Soham Patel is the author of all one in the end/water— (Delete Press, 2022), ever really hear it (Subito Press, 2018), winner of the Subito Prize, and to afar from afar (The Accomplices, 2018). They live in Blacksburg, Virginia where they run the graduate publishing certificate on the MFA faculty at Virginia Tech, teaching courses on literary magazines, small presses, and digital publications.

Prageeta Sharma is the author of six collections of poetry; her most recent collection is Onement Won. She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Creative Writing, and Artistic and Aesthetic Practices, a recent recipient of the 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and is currently the Henry G. Lee ’37 professor of English at Pomona College.