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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Wednesday, October 7 at 4pm at Yale, Srikanth Reddy will lecture on “The O of Wonder: a Syzygy”</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
<b>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. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), 63 High Street, New Haven, CT. Free & open to the Yale
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Bagley Wright Lecture Series</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> 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
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Srikanth Reddy</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> is the author
of two books of poetry–<i>Facts for Visitors</i> (2004), and <i>Voyager</i> (2011)–both published by the University of California Press. A book of criticism, <i>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. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements about
poetry and fiction readings, send the full text of the announcement, including contact information, to
<a href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings">nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted.
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Poetry at Beinecke Library:
<a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library">http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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