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<font face="Arial, Helvetica">Please join us for a poetry reading by C.
D. Wright and Forrest Gander TODAY at 4 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@yale.edu.<br>
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C. D. Wright is the author of more than ten books of poetry. She has
received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the Lila
Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation, and the Bunting Institute. She is a
Professor at Brown University. For information about and examples of
Wright’s work visit:<br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C01010C" eudora="autourl">http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C01010C<br>
</a><a href="http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/cdwright/online_poems.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/cdwright/online_poems.</a><a href="http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/cdwright/online_poems.htm" eudora="autourl">htm<br>
</a><a href="http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/cdwright/johnson.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/cdwright/johnson.</a><a href="http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/cdwright/johnson.htm" eudora="autourl">htm<br>
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</a></u></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica">Forrest Gander’s six books
of poetry include Torn Awake (2001) and Science &
Steepleflower. He is the editor of <i>Mouth to Mouth: 12
Contemporary Mexican Women Poets</i> (1993) and a translator of the work
of Pura López Colomé and Jaime Saenz. His awards include two Gertrude
Stein Awards for Innovative Writing. Gander is Director of the
Graduate Program in Literary Arts and Creative Writing at Brown
University. For information about and examples of Gander’s work
visit:<br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/99_00/ganderbio.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/99_00/ganderbio.</a><a href="http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/99_00/ganderbio.html" eudora="autourl">html<br>
</a><a href="http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=717" eudora="autourl">http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=717<br>
</a><a href="http://www.brown.edu/Departments/English/Writing/people/Forrest/" eudora="autourl">http://www.brown.edu/Departments/English/Writing/people/Forrest/<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>