<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">++++</font></div><div class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Subject:</b> TODAY: The Bagley Wright Lecture Series presents Srikanth Reddy<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><o:p class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">* * *<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><o:p class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Today, October 7, at 4:00pm in LC 211, Srikanth Reddy will present "The O of Wonder: A Syzygy" as part of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry. In this talk, Reddy traces a history of wonder in the Western poetic tradition from Homer to Milton to Ronald Johnson. This event is free and open to the Yale community.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class="">Srikanth Reddy is the author of two books of poetry–<i class="">Facts for Visitors</i> (2004), and <i class="">Voyager</i> (2011)–both published by the University of California Press. A book of criticism, <i class="">Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry</i>, was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. He has received fellowships and awards from the Asian American Writer’s Workshop, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Creative Capital Foundation, among others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and the doctoral program in English at Harvard University, Reddy is currently an Associate Professor of English a the University of Chicago. <br class=""><br class="">The Bagley Wright Lecture Series seeks to provide mid-career poets with the opportunity to explore in depth their own thinking on the subject of poetry and poetics, and to create lasting works of criticism and poetics that will help current practitioners in the art of poetry, along with scholars and general readers, to more fully understand poetry as it is written and read in our time.</font></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">***</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Please join us for a poetry reading<b class=""><u class=""> by Andrew Motion on Thursday, October 15 at 4:30 p.m. in LC 211. </u></b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Palatino" class=""> </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Andrew Motion is President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England and co-founder of The Poetry Archive. His latest project is Poetry By Heart.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><o:p class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The Customs House is the latest collection from the former Poet Laureate. The book is in three sections, and opens with a sequence of war poems, Laurels and Donkeys, which draws on soldiers’ experiences from the First and Second World wars, through to the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><o:p class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The Customs House follows hard on the heels of his acclaimed sequel, Silver ~ Return to Treasure Island (Jonathan Cape), in which Long John Silver’s daughter and Jim Hawkins’ son return to the scene of their fathers’ adventures.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><o:p class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Andrew Motion’s poetry has received the Arvon/Observer Prize, the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. He was knighted for his services to literature in 2009 and was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 until 2009. He now lives in Baltimore, MD where he is currently a Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><o:p class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><o:p class=""><font face="Palatino" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> </font></o:p></div></div></body></html>