Welcome to the second episode of Season Ten of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.  

Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Srikanth Reddy during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2015.

Srikanth Reddy’s series of lectures consider a range of questions concerning poetry and visual art, including theories of likeness, ekphrasis, and wonder.

Today, we’ll hear "Like a Very Strange Likeness and Pink," recorded at Seattle Arts and Lectures, December 1, 2015. This lecture examines the question of likeness in Emily Dickinson's similes and Gertrude Stein's portraits as a way of thinking about social identity and difference in modern American poetry. To view a gallery of works referenced in this talk, visit this page at BWLS website, here.  

Reddy’s book based on his BWLS lectures, ⁠The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures⁠, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available ⁠here⁠. 

Visit us at our website, bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.

Music: "⁠I Recall⁠" by ⁠Blue Dot Sessions⁠

from the ⁠Free Music Archive⁠ CC BY NC