Grolier Hybrid Reading - Isaac Jarnot and Srikanth Reddy (Zoom 2024)

Grolier Poetry Book Shop Presents a Hybrid Reading featuring Isaac Jarnot and Srikanth Reddy featuring an introduction by Catherine Bresner
October 16, 2024 at 7 pm
Lisa Jarnot (now Isaac Jarnot) was born in Buffalo, NY and edu- cated at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Some Other Kind of Mission (1996), Ring of Fire (2001), Black Dog Songs (2003), Night Scenes (2008), Joie De Vivre: Selected Poems 1992-2012 (2013) and A Princess Magic Presto Spell (2019). He co-edited An Anthology of New (American) Poets (1997), and his biography of San Francisco poet Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus, was published by the University of California Press in 2012. He has been a visiting professor at Naropa University, Brooklyn College, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, holds a Masters of Divinity degree from New York Theological Seminary, is a PhD student in theology at Drew University, and is a minister at Safe Haven United Church of Christ.
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; he is currently the poetry editor of The Paris Review, and a co-editor of the Phoenix Poets book series at the University of Chicago Press. 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.