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Please join us for a poetry reading by William Heyen on Wednesday,
October 13, 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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William Heyen is the author of more than fifteen books of poetry
including <i>Depth of Field</i> (1970), <i>The Swastika Poems</i> (1977),
<i>Long Island Light: Poems and a Memoir</i> (1979), <i>Lord
Dragonfly</i> (1981), <i>Pterodactyl Rose: Poems on Ecology</i> (1991),
<i>Ribbons: The Gulf War</i> (1991), <i>The Host: Selected Poems
1965-1990</i> (1994), <i>Crazy Horse in Stillness</i> (1996), winner of
1997�s Small Press Book Award for Poetry, and <i>Shoah Train</i> (2003).
He has also written several books of prose, including: a memoir, <i>With
Me Far Away</i> (1994); a novel, <i>Vic Holyfield and the Class of
1957</i> (1986); and <i>Pig Notes & Dumb Music: Prose on Poetry</i>.
Heyen is the editor of <i>The Generation of 2000: Contemporary American
Poets</i> (1984) and <i>September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond</i>
(2002). He has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry,
the Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize from Poetry magazine, the Witter
Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy and Institute of Arts
and Letters, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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For information about William Heyen and to read examples of his work
visit:<br>
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<a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/heyen-hol-songs.html" eudora="autourl">http</a>://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/heyen-hol-songs.<a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/heyen-hol-songs.html" eudora="autourl">html<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>