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FELIX and Friends to host poets March 23
by Michael Worringer
Library Communications
Posted 3/10/2006
MADISON, Wis. -- Brenda Hillman and Srikanth Reddy, two poets at the leading edge of their field, will read their poetry Thursday, March 23 at 4:30 p.m. in the Department of Special Collections, 976 Memorial Library.
The Friends of the UW-Madison Library and its FELIX program have joined together to bring the poets to campus.
The distinguished Hillman, author of seven books of poetry, will read from her most recent volume, Pieces of Air in the Epic. Hillman holds the Olivia Filippi Chair in Poetry at St. Mary's College in California and has received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.
Srikanth Reddy, a poet and professor at the University of Chicago, recently published his first book of poetry, Facts for Visitors, with the New California Poetry Series (University of California Press), a series which Hillman coedits. Reddy's work has also appeared in various journals, including APR, Fence, Grand Street, jubilat, Ploughshares and Verse.
Named after Felix Pollak (1909-1987), poet and former curator of Special Collections, FELIX is a developing reader series that provides a forum for writers and publishers on the evolution of "little magazines" and their role in today's literary society. After their readings, the poets will take questions from the audience, and a reception will follow.