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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font size=2>On Friday, April 2,
2004 at 8 p.m., Tony Fusco, Maria Sassi and Vivian Shipley will read
their poetry at the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown, Connecticut. For
directions, please call 1-860-347-4957. Tony Fusco will read from his new
book, <i>In Jesse's Garden. </i>Fusco, Editor of <i>Caduceus</i>
and Producer of West Shore Poets, won the 2003 Sunken Garden Poetry
Competition and the 2003 John Holmes Prize for Poetry from the New
England Poetry Club. Maria Sassi will read from <i>Rooted in Stars</i>
which is in a 2nd printing. Vivian Shipley will read from <i>When There
Is No Shore</i>, winner of the 2003 Connecticut Book Prize for Poetry and
<i>Gleanings: New Poems, Old Poems</i> (Southeastern Louisiana University
Press, 2003). </blockquote>
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Nancy Kuhl<br>
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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>