<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal"> The Grad Poets Reading Series returns for the Spring 2014 semester with two exciting readings. The first will take place next Thursday, February 6<sup>th</sup> at 7:00 pm in LC 317 (63 High St., New Haven). The poet Lucie Brock-Broido will be joining us, reading with grad students Kevin Holden (Comp Lit) and Brandon Menke (English).</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Lucie Brock-Broido received her B.A. and her M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her most recent book <i>Stay, Illusion</i>, is a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry. Her previous collections of poetry include <i>Trouble in Mind </i>(Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), recipient of the Massachusetts Book Award; <i>The Master Letters</i> (1995); and <i>A Hunger </i>(1988). In 2008, she edited and published <i>Letters to a</i> <i>Stranger</i>, <i>Poems</i> by Thomas James with Graywolf Press. Her awards and honors include the Witter-Bynner prize for poetry from the Academy of American Arts and Letters, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2013, she was given the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">We’ll have copies of <i>Stay, Illusion</i> available to purchase at the reading ($20, cash/check only).</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Our next reading will take place much later this spring, when Paige Ackerson-Kiely joins us on April 24<sup>th</sup>.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">For more information or, if you’re grad student, to read in the series, please contact Paul Franz (<a href="mailto:paul.franz@yale.edu">paul.franz@yale.edu</a>) or Justin Sider (<a href="mailto:justin.sider@yale.edu">justin.sider@yale.edu</a>). You can find our event page here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/263932707102395/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming">https://www.facebook.com/events/263932707102395/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming</a>. And our group page here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/YGPRS/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/YGPRS/</a>.</p><div><br></div></body></html>