PSA Reading Series: Srikanth Reddy & Lisa Robertson

Описание: 00:00 – Welcoming remarks
01:57 – Introducing Srikanth Reddy
04:29 – Srikanth Reddy
29:07 – Introducing Lisa Roberson
32:06 – Lisa Robertson

The February 2025 installment of the PSA Reading Series at the Poetry Society's storefront space in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, featuring Srikanth Reddy and Lisa Robertson.

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Srikanth Reddy’s latest book of poetry, Underworld Lit, was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, and a Times Literary Supplement “Book of the Year” for 2020. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, The Guardian (UK), The New York Times, and The Washington Post. The recipient of fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Reddy is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago, and Poetry Editor of The Paris Review. His book of lectures on poetry and painting, The Unsignificant, was published by Wave Books last fall. Author photo by Kaitlyn Shea.

Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet, essayist, and novelist who lives in France. Born in Toronto in 1961, she was a long-time resident of Vancouver. She has published 9 books of poetry, most recently Boat (2022), and two books of essays Nilling (2012), and Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (2003). Her 2021 book Anemones: A Simone Weil Project (If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam), an annotated translation of Weil’s 1942 essay on the troubadour poets and the Cathar heresy, is the most recent outcome of wide rime, her ongoing study of medieval troubadour culture and poetics. She has been a visiting poet and professor at Princeton University, University of Cambridge, U East Anglia, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Piet Zwart Institute, Simon Fraser University, American University of Paris, Naropa, and California College of the Arts. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and in 2018, the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in New York awarded her the inaugural C. D. Wright Award in Poetry. Her novel The Baudelaire Fractal was shortlisted for the 2021 Governor General’s Award for Fiction and has been published in French, Swedish and Turkish translations. A second novel, Riverwork, is forthcoming from Coach House Books. Author photo by Cecilia Grönberg.