['Gregory Pardlo, the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is called "a different kind of Derek Jeter" by the Poetry Foundation. Pardlo debunks the theory that African Americans are disinterested parents.\nHe is the second African American male poet to win the Pulitzer for poetry and the sixth African American poet overall to capture the highly coveted honor. The Pulitzer judges said his work "was rich with thought, ideas, and histories that were both public and private."', OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', 'Gregory Pardlo, the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is called "a different kind of Derek Jeter" by the Poetry Foundation. Pardlo debunks the theory that African Americans are disinterested parents. He is the second African American male poet to win the Pulitzer for poetry and the sixth African American poet overall to capture the highly coveted honor. The Pulitzer judges said his work "was rich with thought, ideas, and histories that were both public and private."')])]
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