Srikanth “Chicu” Reddy is a poet, critic, and literary editor who studies poetry across a range of forms, historical periods, and regions. He is the author of the poetry collections Underworld Lit (2020), Voyager(2011), and Facts for Visitors (2004), and a book of criticism, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry (2012). A book of lectures on poetry and painting, “The Unsignificant,” will be published in fall 2024. He is poetry editor of The Paris Review, and series editor of the Phoenix Poets book series at the University of Chicago Press. Reddy is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Program in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.
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