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Please join us for a poetry reading by poets James Longenbach and Carl
Phillips on Thursday, February 10, at 4:00 pm at the Beinecke Rare Book
and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street. Elizabeth Alexander will
introduce the poets. 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.ed<br>
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Poet and critic James Longenbach is the author of poetry collections
including <i>Fleet River </i>and <i>Threshold</i>, and critical works
including <i>Modern Poetry after Modernism</i> and <i>The Resistance to
Poetry</i>, essays on the state of the art. He is the Joseph Henry
Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester.<br>
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Carl Phillips is the author of seven books of poetry, including <i>From
the Devotions</i>, <i>Rock Harbor</i>, and <i>The Rest of Love:
Poems</i>. He has recently published a translation of Sophocles’
Philoctetes and a book of essays, <i>Coin of the Realm: Essays on the
Life and Art of Poetry</i>. He is associate professor of English and of
African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University, St.
Louis.<br>
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For information about and examples of James Longenbach’s work
visit:<br>
<a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2110740/">http://slate.msn.com/id/2110740/</a><br>
<a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/12411/" eudora="autourl">http://slate.msn.com/id/12411/<br>
</a><a href="http://www.poems.com/orionlon.htm">http://www.poems.com/orionlon.htm</a><br>
<a href="http://www.poems.com/fleetlon.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.poems.com/fleetlon.htm<br>
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For information about and examples of Carl Phillips’s work visit:<br>
<a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=14375&poem=188740">http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=14375&poem=188740</a><br>
<a href="http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?45442B7C000C05050171" eudora="autourl">http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?45442B7C000C05050171<br>
</a><a href="http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=251">http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=251</a><br>
<a href="http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/143.html" eudora="autourl">http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/143.html<br>
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