<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Comrades,<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I will sending along some minutes drawn from last Friday's very generative discussion with prose poem scholar/poet Michel Delville. In the meantime, I wanted to send some announcements about events run by or involving WGCP members. Alas, all of them fall on the same date--this Thursday, though they aren't actually in conflict with one another. This series of events indicates, however, a particularly energetic semester lies ahead.</div><div><br></div><div>Onward,</div><div>Richard Deming, Group Coordinator<br><div><div><p><br></p><div>++++++</div><p>1) Grad Poets Reading Series Presents<strong>: </strong>Ariana Reines<br>
Contacts: <a href="mailto:justin.sider@yale.edu">justin.sider@yale.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:sarah.stone@yale.edu">sarah.stone@yale.edu</a></p><div><br></div><div>Thursday, September 20, 2012<br>07:00<br>LC 317</div><div><br></div><div>Ariana Reines' books of poetry include <em>The Cow </em>(2006), which won the Alberta Prize from Fence Books; <em>Coeur de Lion </em>(2007); and <em>Mercury </em>(2011). Her poems have been anthologized in <em>Against Expression </em>(2011) and <em>Gurlesque </em>(2010).
Known for her interest in bodily experience, the occult, new media, and
the possibilities of the long or book-length form, Reines has been
described as “one of the crucial voices of her generation” by Michael
Silverblatt on NPR’s <em>Bookworm. </em></div></div><div>++++++++++</div><div><br></div>2)<br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">Yale Literature & Spirituality Series</div><div>Readings and Talks followed by a reception and book-signing.<br>Belinda Jack<br>Women Readers and the Christian Tradition<br><br>Thursday, September 20, 2012 | 5:15 PM<br><br>Sterling Memorial library auditorium<br><br>Presented in collaboration with Yale Divinity Student Book Supply, with support<br>from Yale University Press and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies<br>Program at Yale.<br><br>Belinda Jack is Tutorial Fellow in French, Christ Church, University of Oxford.<br>She is the author of George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Largeand Beatrice’s<br>Spell. Her newest book, The Woman Reader, is now available from Yale University<br>Press.<br><br>The Woman Reader<br><br>This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's<br>reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's<br>groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital<br>bookstores of our time, exploring what and how women of widely differing<br>cultures have read through the ages.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Here's the announcement with a link<br><<a href="http://www.yale.edu/ism/events/BelindaJack.html">http://www.yale.edu/ism/events/BelindaJack.html</a>>.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>++++++++++++++++</div><div>3)</div><div><br></div><div>Bert Hirschhorn, poet, WGCP charter member and now London correspondent is reading in New York City.</div><div><abbr class="dtstart" property="vcal:dtstart" content="2012-09-20" title="20120920T180600"> Thursday September 20, 2012 </abbr>
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