<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><strong>Thursday, 25 April 2013</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">The Infinite Well - 123 Court Street, New Haven, CT</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Open reading at 7:30pm - free parking</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Jason Labbe is the author of the chapbooks</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><em>Blackwash Canal</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">(H_NGM_N BKS) and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><em>Dear Photographer</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">(Phylum Press), as well as poems in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><em>A Public Space, Boston Review, Poetry, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, American Letters & Commentary</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">, and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><em>Handsome</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">. He curates readings for Intercambio and teaches Creative Writing at SCSU in New Haven. He lives with his wife in Bethany, where he writes about books and art, practices the drums, and works on vintage British motorcycles. Also a musician, he directs the ever-expanding experimental music collective Snake Oil, whose new album,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><em>The Train is White and the Moon is Strong</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">, will be out later this year.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Jason Camlot is the author of three collections of poetry,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><em>The Debaucher</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">(2008),</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><em>Attention All Typewriters</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">(2005), and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><em>The Animal Library</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">(2001). His critical works include</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><em>Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">(2008) and the co-edited collection of essays,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><em>Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the Twenty-First Century</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">(2007). A new collection of poems entitled</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><em>What the World Said</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">will appear with Mansfield Press in the fall. Jason teaches Victorian literature at Concordia University in Montreal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">++++</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div><font face="Garamond" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Come see James Berger read from his book Prior.</span></font><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond; "> Together with Susan Holahan and Katie Yates. </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></div><div><font face="Garamond"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">April 29 @ 6:30, at Mitchell Branch Library, 37 Harrison St, New Haven. </span></font></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond; "> This event is co-sponsored by the
New Haven Review and the Westville Village Renaissance Alliance.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond; ">Also, congratulations to Jim Berger and his new book. You can read an interview with Jim here:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/news/15-questions-an-interview-with-james-berger-116/">http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/news/15-questions-an-interview-with-james-berger-116/</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond; "><br></span></div><div> </div><div>++++++++++</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">
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reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Gray and Charles will
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Disguises </i>(AWP Poetry Prize), & <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Little
Boy Blue</i> (CavanKerry).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She’s
received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts & the
Connecticut Commission on the Arts. To learn more about Gray’s work as a poet
visit </span><a href="http://grayjacobik.com/"><span style="font-family:Arial;
color:#000089">grayjacobik.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial">; to
view her abstract and non-objective paintings, visit </span><a href="http://grayjacobikartist.com/"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000089">grayjacobikartist.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial">. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Charles Douthat’s</span></b><span style="font-family:
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2010.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>His poems have been
featured on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Poetry Daily, Verse Daily</i>,
& Garrison Keillor’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Writer’s
Almanac.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></i>Charles paints in
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