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<font face="Arial, Helvetica">Please join us for a poetry reading by
Adrienne Rich tomorrow, Thursday, September 30, 4 pm at Battell Chapel
(corner of College and Elm Streets). A reception will follow at Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street. This event is free and
open to the public on a first come, first served basis. 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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Feminist poet and thinker Adrienne Rich is the author of more than
fifteen volumes of poetry, including <i>The School Among the Ruins</i>
(September 2004), <i>Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995</i>,
and <i>The Fact of a Doorframe: Selected Poems 1950-2001</i>, and several
books of prose, including <i>Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and
Institution</i>, <i>What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and
Politics</i>, and<i> Arts of the Possible: Essays & Conversation</i>.
One of America's most celebrated poets, Rich has received the Lannan
Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the
Common Wealth Award in Literature, the National Book Award, the Wallace
Stevens Award, and the Bollingen Prize for Poetry.<br>
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More information about Adrienne Rich and examples of her work can be
found online:<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>