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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>From: "Suzanne Heyd"
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To: <nancy.kuhl@yale.edu>, <faithv1017@earthlink.net><br>
Cc: "Jolynne Roorda" <info@allgallery.org><br>
Subject: David Cappella & Ravi Shakar at ALL September 17, 7pm
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Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 22:07:02 -0400<br>
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<font face="arial"><b>WORD of MOUTH</b>, the monthly reading series @
<b>ARTS + LITERATURE LABORATORY</b>, invites you to a reading with poets
<b>David Cappella</b> and <b>Ravi Shankar</b>.
<b>Friday, September 17th at 7pm</b></font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial">A teacher and a poet, <b>David Cappella</b> is a
member of the English department at Central Connecticut State University.
He is the co-author with Baron Wormser of <i>Teaching the Art of Poetry:
The Moves</i> (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2000) and of <i>A Surge
of Language: Teaching Poetry Day to Day</i> (Heinemann, 2004). He was the
resident teacher at The Frost Place Teacher Seminar in 2003. He has
presented workshops on teaching poetry throughout the United States. His
poems have appeared <i>The Connecticut Review, Diner, The Newbury
Review</i> and other journals. </font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial"><b>Ravi Shankar</b> is poet-in-residence at Central
Connecticut State University and the founding editor of the online
journal of the arts,
<a href="http://www.drunkenboat.com">http://www.drunkenboat.com</a>. His
first book <i>Instrumentality</i>, was published by Word Press in May
2004. His work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in such places
as <i>The Paris Review, Poets &Writers, Time Out New York, Gulf
Coast, The Massachusetts Review, Descant, LIT, Crowd, The Cortland
Review, Catamaran, The Indiana Review, Western Humanities Review, The
Iowa Review, Smartish Pace, and the AWP Writer's Chronicle,</i> among
other publications. He has read at such venues as The National Arts Club,
Columbia University, KGB, and the Cornelia Street Café, has held
residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, and the Atlantic Center
for the Arts, has served on panels at UCLA, Poet's House,
South-by-Southwest Interactive/Film Festival, and the AWP Conference in
Baltimore, been a commentator for NPR and Wesleyan radio, reviews poetry
for the Contemporary Poetry Review and is currently editing an anthology
of South Asian, East Asian, and Middle Eastern poetry. You can read an
interview with him at:
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/16/dev-iv-shank.html">http://jacketmagazine.com/16/dev-iv-shank.html</a>.
He does not play the sitar.</font><br>
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<font face="arial"><b>As usual, an open mic will start the
evening. ARTS + LITERATURE LABORATORY 5 Edwards Street,
New Haven CT</b></font><br>
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<font face="arial"><b>For more information, log on to
<a href="http://www.allgallery.org/" eudora="autourl">www.allgallery.org</a>
or call (203) 671-5175.</b></font><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>
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