International Poetry Forum Presents: Srikanth Reddy

Srikanth Reddy, acclaimed poet, University of Chicago professor, and poetry editor for The Paris Review, will be visiting Pittsburgh to perform his work at the International Poetry Forum. The reading will take place at the Carnegie Lecture Hall at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in Oakland (4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213).

This event is part of the relaunch season of the International Poetry Forum, which originally hosted over 800 poets and performers from 50+ countries in Pittsburgh between 1966-2009. Alumni of our reading series including legends like Seamus Heaney, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mary Oliver, Chinua Achebe, Kurt Vonnegut, Grace Kelly, Gregory Peck, James Earl Jones, and Queen Noor of Jordan.

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Poet Bio:

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. He is also the author of Voyager, named one of the best books of poetry in 2011 by The New Yorker, The Believer, and National Public Radio. Reddy’s writing has appeared in Harper’s, The Guardian (UK), The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

Reddy is the poetry editor of The Paris Review, and a co-editor of the Phoenix Poets book series at the University of Chicago Press.

Professor of English at the University of Chicago, Reddy has been the recipient of fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the NEA. His book of lectures on poetry and painting, The Unsignificant, was published by Wave Books in September 2024.

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