Poet, scholar, and Paris Review poetry editor Srikanth Reddy joins novelist and RAP Special Projects Coordinator Sara Houghteling to discuss his latest book, The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures (Wave Books, 2024). In it, Reddy refracts poems by the likes of Homer, Gertrude Stein, and Ronald Johnson through images such as Bruegel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Hermann Rorschach’s inkblots, and Galileo’s drawings of the moon. 

Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. A book signing follows the talk. Copies of The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures will be available for purchase at the talk and in the Museum Store.

Image: Kaitlyn Shea