<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Friends,<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4">just a reminder that we are meeting for our next session this Friday from 3 PM - 5 PM in the Whitney Humanities Center; however we will not be in our usual room. <b><i>For this session, we will be in room B04.</i></b></font></div><div><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><br></font></i></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4">And the reading for this session will be the work of Jan Wagner. Wagner will be joining us at our subsequent session on Oct 26. The packet is available as a downloadable pdf at the WGCP blog--</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><a href="http://wgcp.wordpress.com/">http://wgcp.wordpress.com/</a></font></div><div><i style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><br></font></i></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4">Just direct your browser there and click on the link <a href="http://www.library.yale.edu/%7Enkuhl/WGCPJanWagner.pdf">Jan Wagner WGCP Readings</a>. The poems are available in English and the original German.<i style="font-weight: bold; "> </i></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><i style="font-weight: bold; "><br></i></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4">Also, there is an event occurring on Thursday that will be of interest to many on this list. Our own member-at-large, Peter Cole is presenting a talk at 5.15 in conjunction with his truly remarkable new book </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4" style="font-weight: bold; ">The Poetry of Kabbalah:</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large; "><b>Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition </b>(Yale UP, 2012). I'll post the information below.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large; "><br></span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4">Until Friday,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4">Richard Deming, WGCP Coordinator</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Yale Literature and Spirituality Series<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><a href="http://www.yale.edu/ism/events/PeterCole.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">The Poetry of Kabbalah, the Kabbalah of Poetry</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">The Lana Schwebel Memorial Lecture in Religion and Literature<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Peter Cole, poet and translator</span></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Thursday, Oct. 11 | 5:15 PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Marquand Chapel<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">(409 Prospect St., New Haven)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Lecture followed by reception and book-signing. Free; no tickets required. Plenty of free parking.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: black; ">Peter Cole is</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> the author of three books of poems, most recently <i>Things on Which I've Stumbled</i> (New Directions, 2008). Last April, <i>The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition </i>was published as part of Yale U. Press's Margellos World Republic of Letters series. A book of non-fiction, <i>Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza,</i> written with Adina Hoffman, was published in 2011 by Schocken/Nextbook. Cole's other volumes of translations from Hebrew and Arabic include <i>The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492</i> (Princeton), Aharon Shabtai's <i>War and Love, Love and War: New & Selected Poems </i>(New Directions), Taha Muhammad Ali's <i>So What: New & Selected Poems 1973-2005</i> (Copper Canyon), and <i>Hebrew Writers on Writing</i> (Trinity). <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Cordially,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Melissa Maier<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Manager of Publications and External Relations<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Yale Institute of Sacred Music<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.yale.edu/ism" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.yale.edu/ism</a></div></font></div></body></html>