[Yale-readings] REMINDER--Poetry Reading: Cole Swensen at Beinecke 11-10-05

[Nancy Kuhl]

Please join us for a poetry reading by poet Cole Swensen on Thursday, 
November 10th, at 4:00 pm at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 
121 Wall Street. A reception will follow; this event is free and open to 
the public. For additional information about the Yale Collection of 
American Literature Reading Series please contact Nancy Kuhl at 432-2966 or 
nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.

Cole Swensen is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Goest 
(2004), which was nominated for the National Book Award. Her next 
collection, The Book of a Hundred Hands, will be published by University of 
Iowa Press in 2005. She has been awarded a National Poetry Series Prize, 
Sun & Moon's New American Writing Award, the Iowa Poetry Prize, the San 
Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Her 
translations of contemporary French fiction, art criticism, and poetry, 
including Olivier Cadiot's Future, Former, Fugitive, Pierre Alferi's OXO, 
and Jean Frémon's The Island of the Dead, have received critical praise and 
awards including the 2004 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation. She has 
received grants from the Association Beaumarchais and the French Bureau du 
Livre. She is currently on the faculty at the Writers Workshop at the 
University of Iowa.

For information about and examples of Cole Swensen's work visit:
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2004_cswensen.htm
http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/goest.html
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/Archives/Winter_2003/Interviews/interviews.htm
http://jacketmagazine.com/13/swensen-4.html

For additional information please contact Nancy Kuhl at 432-2966 or 
nancy.kuhl at yale.edu

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