Thursday, March 11, 2010

Now You Know How We Feel:


on Saturday, March 27
whenever we feel like it presents
SRIKANTH REDDY &
DANIEL KHALASTCHI
w/ KAEGAN SPARKS
@ 4pm
Kelly Writers House
University of Pennsylvania
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia PA 19104

Srikanth Reddy
's first collection, Facts for Visitors, received the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry in 2005. His second book, Voyager, is forthcoming from the University of California Press in 2011. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the doctoral program in English at Harvard University, Reddy is currently an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.

Daniel Khalastchi is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poems have appeared/are forthcoming in a variety of journals, including Denver Quarterly; jubilat; 1913; Forklift, Ohio; Ninth Letter; GutCult; and Thermos, among others. A recent fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Daniel is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University. His first collection of poetry, The Maturation of Man, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press.

Kaegan Sparks is a senior in the college. She curates KWH Art at the Writers House and works with the Common Press at Penn. Kaegan has held internships over the past two summers at ICA Philadelphia, Dia:Beacon, Parkett Publishers, and The Kitchen in New York City. She studies contemporary poetry at Penn, and writes poems on occasion. She is currently working on a hybrid creative-critical piece on the intricacies of dialogue forms in poetry.



(original drawing by Jennifer Rothfuss)

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