<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707"><br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707"> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(7, 7, 7); ">The Yale Grad Poets Reading Series returns with our first reading of 2012, featuring poet Elizabeth <span style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Willis</span>, this Thursday, March 22nd. You can find more information below and at <a href="http://english.commons.yale.edu/graduate_poets/" target="_blank">http://english.commons.yale.edu/graduate_poets/</a>, or follow us on Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#%21/groups/YGPRS/" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/YGPRS/</a>. Hope to see you there.</span><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707">Sincerely,</font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707">Sarah Stone and Justin Sider</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707">Department of English</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707">
Yale University</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:sarah.stone@yale.edu" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707">sarah.stone@yale.edu</font></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:justin.sider@yale.edu" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707">justin.sider@yale.edu</font></a></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707">Elizabeth <span style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Willis</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707">
Thursday, March 22nd at 7:00 pm</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707">Linsly-Chittenden 317</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707">63 High St., New Haven</font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify">The Grad Poets Reading Series presents: Elizabeth <span style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Willis</span>. Her most recent book,</span><em style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify"> Address</em><span style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify">, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2011. Other works include </span><em style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify">Meteoric Flowers </em><span style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify">(Wesleyan, 2006),</span><em style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify">Turneresque</em><span style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify"> (Burning Deck, 2003); </span><em style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify">The Human Abstract</em><span style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify"> (Penguin, 1995); and a book-length poem entitled </span><em style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify">Second Law</em><span style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify"> (Avenue
B, 1993). Her honors and awards include selection for the National
Poetry Series, a Walter N. Thayer Fellowship for the Arts, a grant from
the California Arts Council, a fellowship from the Howard Foundation,
and a residency at the MacDowell Colony. She has held teaching
residencies at University of Denver, Brown University, and Naropa
University. Beyond her dissertation on Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics (SUNY
Buffalo, 1994), <span style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Willis</span> has
written on 19th- and 20th-century poetry, focusing on the intersections
of public and private life, the effects of political and technological
developments on poetic production, and the relation of contemporary
poets to their sources. Recent prose can be found in </span><em style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify">Textual Practice</em><span style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify">, </span><em style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify">Contemporary Literature</em><span style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify">, and </span><em style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify">XCP: Cross-cultural Poetics</em><span style="line-height:16px;text-align:justify">. Currently she is editing a collection of essays entitled Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Politics of Place. <span style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Willis</span> was
born in Bahrain and lived for many years in Wisconsin before moving to
western New York. She taught at various venues in New York, Rhode
Island, and California before becoming Distinguished Writer-in-Residence
at Mills College from 1997 to 2002. Since 2002 she has taught creative
writing and literature at Wesleyan University.</span> </font><br>
</font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707">Also coming, Spring 2012:</font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707">Geoffrey G. O’Brien</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707">
Thursday, April 19th</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707">Linsly-Chittenden 317,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707">63 High Street, New Haven</font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070707"><br>
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