[Yale-readings] FW: TODAY (10/23): Graduate Poets Reading Series: DéLana R. A. Dameron & Tobi Kassim

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Dear poetry lovers:
The 2017-2018 season of the Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series commences on Monday, October 23, at 6:00pm in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 319, with a very special reading by DéLana R. A. Dameron. Dameron will be sharing work from her exciting new collection Weary Kingdom, about which Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess writes, "DéLana R. A. Dameron has scored us a space brimmed with memory and light, a song of migration and family that shimmers and burns across the page. Her poems trance subways and kudzu and pepper spray across a Mason Dixon trail of family and loves. Witness these epistles to beetle and moth, to river bend voices blooming in an embattled cityscape that weaves us whole." We're also very happy to announce that Tobi Kassim, a first year Ph.D. student in the English Department, will serve as DéLana's opening act. Copies of Weary Kingdom will be available for purchase after the reading.
A native of Columbia, South Carolina, DéLana R.A. Dameron is a writer and arts and culture administrator living in Brooklyn, NY. Dameron’s second collection of poems Weary Kingdom (2017) is part of the University of South Carolina Palmetto Poetry Series, edited by Nikky Finney. Dameron’s debut collection How God Ends Us (2009) was selected by Elizabeth Alexander for the 2008 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. She has conducted readings, workshops and lectures all across the United States, Central America and Europe. Dameron holds a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from New York University where she was a Goldwater Hospital Writer’s workshop fellow. Dameron has had essays, interviews, and poems published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, ARTS.BLACK, Storyscape Journal, The Rumpus, Epiphany Magazine, the Tidal Basin Review, and The New Sound Journal. Dameron writes poetry attuned to migration, the environment, and history; her lyrical voice inscribes her personal history into a deep communal history of black migration and belonging. Her writing blends the mythic with the quotidian, the spiritual with the concrete, crafting a lyrical celebration of black life and urging us to consider radical ways of existing in and transforming our world. www.delanaradameron.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.delanaradameron.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=utafVVnK_aXVelVdzUMRSiCKdAvNHVBc6mgP9nbKaoE&m=qTu-wHyrbbWopo45k65x-vDorPxZgcExKHqcJreSoOs&s=MTaXmaSPpG0lsuxVNT8Pt0f-Ski4Ygp5et4KFnIMg4k&e=>
Tobi Kassim is a first year studying contemporary African American poetry. He studied creative writing as an undergraduate at George Mason University, and attended the Seminar for Undergraduate Poets at Bucknell University in 2016.
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We look forward to seeing you at the reading!

Warm wishes,
​Brandon Menke and Marcus Alaimo


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The Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series is made possible through the generous support of the Dean's Fund, The Yale Review, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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