‘How to Sky-Bury Your Father Tongue’
In experimental elegies for his homeland, Samyak Shertok’s poetry articulates a “ghost language” for grief and loss.
Samyak Shertok
Samyak Shertok is the author of No Rhododendron (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025), selected for the 2024 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, an Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and a Jake Adam York Prize, he has received fellowships from Aspen Words, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has been awarded a Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Poetry, a Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, and an Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Originally from Nepal, Shertok is currently an assistant professor of English at Mississippi State University.
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