Faculty Presentation: Samyak Shertok, Pete Hocking
Monday, July 6, 2026
5-7 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Join us for a summer faculty artist talk and reading with poet Samyak Shertok and artist Pete Hocking .
To join us virtually, visit our YouTube Channel and look for the “Upcoming live streams” section. The majority of our public events are available via YouTube live stream with the presenters’ permission.
About Our Speakers
Samyak Shertok’s debut collection, No Rhododendron (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025), was selected by Kimiko Hahn for the 2024 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. His poems appear in The Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, POETRY, Shenandoah, and Best New Poets. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and the Jake Adam York Prize, he has been awarded the Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Poetry, the Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, and the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Originally from Nepal, he is an assistant professor at Mississippi State University.
Pete Hocking is a visual artist, writer, and teacher based on Cape Cod. In addition to being represented by AMZehnder Gallery in Wellfleet, he’s recently shown with BBLG Gallery on Long Island, the Chazan Gallery in Providence, RI, The Dorado Project in Jersey City, NJ, the Plough Gallery in Tifton, GA, and at VeeVee in Boston, MA. In May 2019 he was an artist-in-residence at the Hawthorne Barn with Twenty Summers. He taught at Rhode Island School of Design from 1997-2023. From 2003-2021 he was faculty in Goddard College’s Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts. He’s a founding board member of the Provincetown Commons, a center for the arts and creative economy.
