<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Friends--<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>the minutes for last Friday's session with the astute Steve Evans is forthcoming. In the meantime, I wanted to send a reminder that we will be holding our last session of the semester on this Friday from 3-5 in our usual room, 116 of the Whitney Humanities Center. For this session we will be joined by WGCP member-at-large Adelaide M. Russo. Adelaide is professor of French and Comparative Literature at Lousiana State University--she will be leading a discussion on the work of Michel DeGuy, one of the formeost poets in France, whose poetics is deeply inflected by continental philosophy. Two years ago we discussed DeGuy's work in connection to his visit to read at the Beinecke Library. Auseful intrdocution to degUy is availble here: </div><div><a href="http://france.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2043">http://france.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2043</a></div><div><br></div><div>Copies of Adelaide's essay on Deguy were circulated at last Friday's session. If you did not receive one but hope to attend on Friday, please contact Jean-Jacques Poucel (<a href="mailto:jean-jacques.poucel@yale.edu">jean-jacques.poucel@yale.edu</a>) so arrangements can be made.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Lastly, I wanted to circulate word of a reading happening today that will feature many members of the WGCP.</div><div><br></div><div>That's all for now,</div><div>Richard Deming, Group Co-coordinator</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Cambria" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Cambria"><b>Yale/New Haven:</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Cambria" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Cambria"><b>A Reading of Local Writers</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Cambria" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Cambria"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Cambria" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Cambria"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Cambria" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Cambria"><b>April 27, 6-8 pm</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Cambria" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Cambria"><b>Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 119, 320 York St.</b></font></div><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Cambria" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Cambria"> </font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Cambria" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Cambria"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Cambria" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Cambria">A reading showcasing local writers, coming from both Yale and the broader New Haven community, who work in a variety of poetry and prose genres. 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