Join us in welcoming acclaimed poet Srikanth Reddy to Pittsburgh on April 15, 2025! Tickets are available here.

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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