<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Friends,<div><br></div><div>just a reminder that we will not be meeting today. We have postponed our first session of the semester until next Friday, February 1 from 3 PM- 5PM in room B04 of the Whitney Humanities Center. Photocopies of David Lehman's <i>Yeshiva Boys</i> are available in room 116 of the WHC. They are on a bookshelf on the wall opposite the door (and nearest the window). There are just a few left, so be sure to pick one up as soon as you can.</div><div><br></div><div>By the way, here is the Publishers Weekly Review of Lehman's book:</div><div><br></div><div><i>Disarmingly casual, unexpectedly serious, alert to his predecessors and
mentors in literature and in life, Best American Poetry series editor
Lehman (When a Woman Loves a Man ) has produced a seventh book
of uncommon variety. Some poems consider writing itself, as inspiration,
as vocation, as business—“That's the thing about ambitious middle-aged
writers/ who used to be young: each has a secret problem,/ and if they
confess it, they think it will advance/ their careers.” Others seek the
informality that Lehman's readers have come to expect. The Jewish
content promised by the title arrives in force late in the volume, as
the title poem cuts between Lehman's remembered childhood and his adult
meditations on heritage and the Holocaust: “I feel as if my real life is
somewhere else, I left it/ back in 1938.” (Lehman's mother, who speaks
the prose epilogue, describes her life as a child in Vienna and as a
refugee.) Lehman, who lives in New York, remains alert to many styles
and forms; as a poet he has often followed in the tracks of Kenneth Koch
and Frank O'Hara. The title poem, leaving those influences behind, will
seem to some readers flat and without style, to others as personal and
as profound as anything Lehman has written.</i> <em>(Nov.)</em></div><div><em><br></em></div><div><em><br></em></div><div><em><br></em></div><div><em>++++++++</em></div><div><br></div><div>I also want to bring you word of a reading happening on campus next week that might be of interest. I will post the info below.</div><div><br></div><div>all best,</div><div>Richard Deming, WGCP Coordinator</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>++++</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Yale Literature & Spirituality Series<br>Brad Davis, poet<br>BOTH /AND<br>an annotated poetry reading<br><br>Thursday, January 31, 2013 | 5:15 PM<br>Marquand Chapel, Yale Divinity School<br><br>Readings in Marquand Chapel followed by a book-signing and reception<br>Presented in collaboration with Yale Divinity Student Book Supply.<br><br>For more information go to: <a href="http://www.yale.edu/ism/events/BradDavis.html">http://www.yale.edu/ism/events/BradDavis.html</a><br><br><br>BIO:<br>Brad Davis has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and several<br>books, the most recent being Opening King David (Wipf & Stock) and<br>Self Portrait w/ Disposable Camera. His poems have appeared widely in<br>such journals as Poetry, Paris Review, DoubleTake, Connecticut Review,<br>Image, Michigan Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, The Cafe Review, Tar<br>River Poetry, Ascent, and Chautauqua. Awards include an AWP Intro<br>Journal Award and the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. Davis has taught<br>creative writing at the College of the Holy Cross and Eastern<br>Connecticut State University. As well, he served fifteen years as<br>chaplain of Pomfret School in Pomfret, CT, where he is now a school<br>counselor, poetry writing teacher, and squash coach. He is editor of<br>Hill-Stead Museum's online poetry journal, Theodate, and their 20th<br>anniversary festival anthology, Sunken Garden Poetry, 1992-2011<br>(Wesleyan University Press).</div><div><br></div><div></div></body></html>