March Bonanza of Poetry

The FELIX Series of New Writing invites you to its March bonanza of poetry. Below are event details, short bios of the poets, and more information about the FELIX Series. We are thrilled about these poets and the readings, and hope to see you there. Pass the word along to students and friends.

A Reading by Srikanth Reddy
Thursday, March 7, 7:00pm
7191 Helen C. White Hall
on the UW-Madison Campus

A Reading by John Yau
Thursday, March 14, 8:00pm
Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative
426 W. Gilman Street

A Reading by Ari Banias and Amy Quan Barry
Saturday, March 16, 7:00pm
Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative
426 W. Gilman Street

Srikanth Reddy is the author of two books of poetry--"Facts for Visitors" (2004) and "Voyager" (2011)--both published by the University of California Press, and a book-length literary collaboration with the poet Dan Beachy-Quick, titled "Conversities" (1913 Press, 2011).  Reddy's critical study, "Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry," was published by Oxford University Press in 2011 as well.  He has received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Creative Capital Foundation, among others.  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.

John Yau is a poet, fiction writer, critic, publisher of Black Square Editions, and freelance curator. His recent books include A Thing Among Things: The Art of JasperJohns (D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2008) and Further Adventures inMonochrome (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). His reviews have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Art News, Bookforum, and the Los Angeles Times. He was the Arts Editor for the Brooklyn Rail (2006-2011). In January 2012, he started the online magazine, Hyperallergic Weekend, with three other writers.

Ari Banias is the author of a chapbook, What’s Personal is Being Here With All of You (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2012). The recipient of fellowships from NYFA, The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, he is currently the Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. His poems have appeared in Subtropics, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast,Evening Will Come, and elsewhere. He has worked as a used bookseller for over a decade. 

Quan Barry is the author of three books published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (Asylum, Controvertibles, and Water Puppets), and her work has appeared in such journals as the Georgia Review, the Kenyon Review, Ms., and the New Yorker. She is currently Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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FELIX: A Series of New Writing is dedicated to providing an audience in Madison, Wisconsin for new writing and experimental literary events. Founded in 2003, the series has been committed to showcasing the work of writers and editors involved in small or independent presses. In 2012, this mission was expanded to highlight our interest in new and innovative work by writers who experiment with publishing, genre, performance, new media and technology, and the boundaries between the arts and between disciplines. The FELIX series aims to create dynamic literary events for the university and larger Madison literary community.

The series is named after Felix Pollak, a poet and longtime UW-Madison librarian with a special love for and dedication to small literary magazines. From 1959 to 1974, Pollack worked as a curator of rare books here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and took responsibility for developing the Sukov collection (now known as the Little Magazine Collection), one of the nation’s finest collections of small literary magazines, many of which were published by independent presses.