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On December 18, 2003, poet and winner of the 2003 Connecticut Book Award
for Poetry Vivian Shipley will read from her recent book <i>When There Is
No Shore</i> as part of the Yale University Program for Humanities in
Medicine 2003-2004 Lectures. The reading is at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont
Room, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, Ct.,
and is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact
Clara Gyorgyey at 203-785-6102 or 203-397-1479<br>
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On November 16, 2003, at the Hartford State House, Vivian Shipley was
awarded the 2003 Connecticut Book Award for Poetry from the Library of
Congress’ Center for the Book for her book <i>When There Is No Shore.
When There Is No Shore </i>also won the 2002 Word Press Poetry Prize and
was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Shipley, the Connecticut State
University Distinguished Professor, is the Editor of <i>Connecticut
Review </i>and a Professor of English at Southern Connecticut State
University. In 2003, she won the Hart Crane Poetry Prize from Kent State
University, the National League of American Pen Women DeAnn Lubell Poetry
Prize and was awarded a Connecticut Commission of the Arts Grant. She has
also won the Lucille Medwick Award from The Poetry Society of America,
the Ann Stanford Prize from the University of Southern California, the
Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award, the Marble Faun Award for Poetry
from the William Faulkner Society, the Daniel Varoujan Award from The New
England Poetry Club, and the Reader’s Choice Award from Prairie Schooner.
She lives in North Haven, Connecticut with her husband, Ed Harris. <br>
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Nancy Kuhl<br>
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature<br>
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<br>
Yale University<br>
121 Wall Street<br>
P.O. Box 208240<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8240<br>
Phone: 203.432.2966 <br>
Fax: 203.432.4047</html>