Eye on India: Vijay Seshadri
61 West Superior Street
Free admission
A reception follows the program.
Eye on India provides a platform for cultural, artistic and educational exchange and collaboration between the US and India. The Eye on India Festival is produced annually in Chicago in partnership with Teamwork Arts, India. This festival kick-off reading and conversation features Vijay Seshadri, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection, 3 Sections (2013) with Matthew Shenoda, associate professor of Creative Writing at Columbia College.
In addition to 3 Sections, Seshadri is also the author of Wild Kingdom (1996) and The Long Meadow (2003), which won the James Laughlin Award. Seshadri has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the NEA, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has worked as an editor at the New Yorker and has taught at Bennington College and Sarah Lawrence College, where he currently directs the graduate non-fiction writing program.
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