<html><head><base href="x-msg://152/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div> </div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Kuhl, Nancy" <<a href="mailto:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu">nancy.kuhl@yale.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Beinecke Small Press Reading Room 2</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">October 9, 2013 3:01:13 PM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Richard Deming <<a href="mailto:richard.deming@yale.edu">richard.deming@yale.edu</a>><br></span></div><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Beinecke Small Press Reading Room, sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature, the Yale Lit, and the Yale Working Group in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics<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; ">Thursday, November 14th, Afternoon time TBA<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; ">Beinecke Library Rooms 38 & 39<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; ">Guests: Guy Pettit of Flying Object (Hadley, MA) , Joshua Beckman of Wave Books (Seattle), Matvei Yankelevich of Ugly Duckling Presse (NYC)<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; ">To RSVP Visit:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsNIJqX-_na6dHNhbWduWUgxbUNsRTU2elRWOXFUd3c&usp=sharing#gid=0" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsNIJqX-_na6dHNhbWduWUgxbUNsRTU2elRWOXFUd3c&usp=sharing#gid=0</a><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; "><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; ">Please join us for the second Beinecke Library Small Press Open Reading Room on Thursday, November 14<sup>th</sup>. A variation on last year’s event, this year will offer an open-house style opportunity to read and handle recent publications by Ugly Duckling Presse, Wave Books, and Flying Object, and the chance to talk with key representatives from each press: Guy Pettit of Flying Object (Hadley, MA) , Joshua Beckman of Wave Books (Seattle), Matvei Yankelevich of Ugly Duckling Presse (NYC). Come survey the state of the art in alternative literary publications and contemporary poetry and prose at the Beinecke Library and talk with three editors/publishers/writing working at the leading edge of American literature.<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; ">The event program will unfold as follows:<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; ">3:30pm--reading room open for browsing<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; ">4:30pm—introduction and brief remarks from visiting publishers, followed by informal q & a<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; ">additional browsing and conversation until 5:30pm<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; ">5:30-6:30pm--post-event pizza party in Beinecke Staff Lounge<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; "><b>PLEASE: RSVP using the following form:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsNIJqX-_na6dHNhbWduWUgxbUNsRTU2elRWOXFUd3c&usp=sharing#gid=0" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsNIJqX-_na6dHNhbWduWUgxbUNsRTU2elRWOXFUd3c&usp=sharing#gid=0</a><b><o:p></o:p></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; "><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; ">For more information, contact Nancy Kuhl:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">nancy.kuhl@yale.edu</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or 203.432.2966<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; ">About visiting the Beinecke Library classrooms:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs-events/teaching-beinecke/seminar-room-use-guidelines" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs-events/teaching-beinecke/seminar-room-use-guidelines</a><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; ">Note: All visitors are asked to leave their belongings, including coats and hats, in the lockers and racks on the main floor. Please do not bring food or drink into the library. Yale affiliates should bring their Yale ID downstairs with them in order to sign in.<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; "><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="font-size: 10pt; "><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; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><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; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Nancy Kuhl<br>Curator of Poetry, Yale Collection of American Literature<br>The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<br>Yale University<br>121 Wall Street, P.O. Box 208240<br>New Haven, CT 06520-8240<br>Phone: 203.432.2966 <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Interested in acquisitions, events, and news from the Yale Collection of American 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; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Visit the YCAL-JWJ Blogs:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/blog/YCAL" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/blog/YCAL</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><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; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>