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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>You are invited to Poets at City
Gallery, a reading by Cameron K. Gearen and Nancy Kuhl in conjunction
with the Edge Events of the New Haven International Festival of Arts and
Ideas, at 4 pm on June 19, 2004. City Gallery is located at 994 State
Street, New Haven. <br>
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<b>Cameron K. Gearen</b> has published a chapbook of poetry entitled
<i>Night, Relative to Day</i> (2004) and selected by Robert Pinsky for
the Annual Aldrich Poetry Award. Her poetry has appeared in <i>Fence, The
Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, Poetry Northwest, The Bellingham Review,
River Styx, Quarterly West, Another Chicago Magazine, Northwest
Review</i> and elsewhere. She won the Grolier Prize in 1994, the W.B.
Yeats Society Poetry Contest in 2001 (judged by Paul Muldoon), and placed
third in the 1997 Painted Bride Quarterly Poetry Contest (judged by Mark
Doty). In 2001, her manuscript was selected as a finalist for the Walt
Whitman Prize, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets and judged by
Yusef Komunyakaa. She has received fellowships from the Connecticut
Commission on the Arts and the Mary Anderson Center. She holds an M.F.A.
in poetry writing from Indiana University. She lives in New Haven with
her husband and two daughters and teaches poetry writing at the
Educational Center for the Arts. <br>
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<b>Nancy Kuhl</b>'s chapbook, <i>In the Arbor</i>, was winner of the Wick
Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published by Kent State University Press.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in <i>Verse, Fence, Phoebe, The
Connecticut Review, Puerto del Sol, Cream City Review, The Journal</i>,
and other magazines. Her book manuscript, <i>The Wife of the Left
Hand</i>, is currently a finalist for both the National Poetry Series
book contest and the Verse Press poetry book contest. She is co-editor of
Phylum Press, an independent publisher of innovative poetry. She is the
Assistant Curator of American literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library at Yale University where she curates the Yale
Collection of American Literature Reading Series. <br>
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<b>City Gallery,</b> which will celebrate its one year anniversary in
June 2004, is a cooperative. It is located in the upper State Street
district of New Haven (around the corner from the
<font color="#0000FF"><u>ALL Gallery</u></font> and the Edwards Street
Artists' Collective). The City Gallery hosts 10-12 member or guest/member
curated and thematic group and solo exhibitions of contemporary artists
per year. Please visit our website at
<a href="http://www.city-gallery.org/index.asp" eudora="autourl">http://www.city-gallery.org/index.asp</a>.<br>
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City Gallery is open to the public each Thursday through Sunday 1 - 4
p.m. or by appointment or unless posted otherwise on this website (view
our monthly calendar links below to find out more about which holidays we
are closed). Give us a call at 203.782.CITY or 782.2489 to arrange an
independent viewing. There an off-street public parking lot just to the
left of our building and many parking spaces can often be found on the
streets in the surrounding neighborhood. Click
<font color="#0000FF"><u>here for directions</u></font>. <br>
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Each month the gallery opens a new show with an opening reception to
which the public is invited. Please visit our online calendar
<font color="#0000FF"><u>----here----</u></font> to find out what's
coming up next! </blockquote>
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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>