[Yale-readings] October 7: Srikanth Reddy at Yale

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Wednesday, October 7 at 4pm at Yale, Srikanth Reddy will lecture on “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. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), 63 High Street, New Haven, CT. Free & open to the Yale community.

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.



Srikanth Reddy is the author of two books of poetry–Facts for Visitors (2004), and Voyager (2011)–both published by the University of California Press.  A book of criticism, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry, 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.

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