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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="Trebuchet MS"><b>WORD
of MOUTH, the monthly reading series @ ARTS + LITERATURE LABORATORY
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</b>invites you to a mother/daughter poetry reading with Connecticut
poets <b>Dolores Hayden </b>and<b> Laura Hayden Marris</b>. <br>
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<b>Friday, November 19th at 7pm<br>
</b> <br>
<br>
</font><font face="arial">Dolores Hayden’s new poetry collection,
<i>American Yard</i>, is just out. Her poems have appeared in <i>The
Kenyon Review,</i> <i>The Yale Review,</i> <i>Southwest Review,</i>
<i>Michigan Quarterly Review,</i> <i>Slate,</i> <i>Margin</i>, and many
other journals and anthologies. A few weeks ago she won the Boyle Farber
award from the New England Poetry Club; she has also won the Poetry
Society of America’s <i>The Writer Magazine</i>/Emily Dickinson Award. A
former Guggenheim and N.E.A. fellow, she is the author of several
award-winning books about American urban landscapes. Her most recent book
is <i>A Field Guide to Sprawl</i> (W. W. Norton, 2004), a “devil’s
dictionary” of bad building patterns featured in <i>The New York Times,
The Boston Globe, </i>and <i>The Wall Street Journal. </i>Recently she
has appeared on<i> Poetry Connecticut </i>as well as<i> </i>CNN, <i>The
Diane Rehm Show </i>and<i> T! he Conne ction</i>. She is a professor of
architecture and American studies at Yale.<br>
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</font><font face="arial">Laura Hayden Marris is a junior at the Hopkins
School. She has been selected by the Hill-Stead Museum as a winner in
their Young Poets Competition for Connecticut high school poets. She has
read her poetry at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival run by the museum as
well as at the Wadsworth Athenaeum, the Kent Memorial Library, the
Farmington Valley Arts Center, and on NPR. Her work is included in the
Fresh Voices chapbook published by the museum in 2003. <br>
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<b>As usual, an open mic will start the evening. Please come a few
minutes early to sign up.<br>
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<b>ARTS + LITERATURE LABORATORY 5 Edwards Street, New Haven CT<br>
For more information, log on to
<a href="http://www.allgallery.org/" eudora="autourl">www.allgallery.org</a>
or call (203) 671-5175.</b></blockquote>
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