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YALE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN LITERATURE READING SERIES<br>
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Please join us for a poetry reading by poets Rodrigo Toscano and
Elizabeth Willis on Tuesday, February 22, at 4:00 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.ed<br>
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<b>Rodrigo Toscano</b> is the author of To Leveling Swerve, Platform, The
Disparities, and Partisans. His work has recently appeared in Best
American Poetry, 2004 and War and Peace. His poetry has been
translated into French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. He was
recently a participant in “Poetry & Empire, Post-Invasion Poetics” at
the University of Pennsylvania, “Societies of American Poetry:
Dissenting Practices” at Georgetown University, and “Diasporic
Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement” at the
University of California, Irvine. Toscano is originally from California
(San Diego & San Francisco). He lives in New York City. <br>
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<b>Elizabeth Willis</b> is the author of Turneresque, The Human Abstract,
winner of the National Poetry Series, and Second Law. Willis has been
awarded a California Arts Council Fellowship, a Howard Foundation
Fellowship for Poetry and she has held residencies in the graduate
programs at Brown University, the Naropa Institute, University of Denver,
and Mills College. With Rodrigo Toscano, she was recently a panelist at
Georgetown University’s “Societies of American Poetry: Dissenting
Practices.” She currently teaches at Wesleyan University in Middletown,
CT.<br>
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For information about and examples of Rodrigo Toscano’s work visit:<br>
<a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/toscano/">http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/toscano/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.krupskayabooks.com/toscano.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.krupskayabooks.com/toscano.htm<br>
</a><a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/28/schw-tosc.html" eudora="autourl">http://jacketmagazine.com/28/schw-tosc.html<br>
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For information about and examples of Elizabeth Willis’s work
visit:<br>
<a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/willis/">http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/willis/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/v1_2_1999/current/new-writing/willis.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/v1_2_1999/current/new-writing/willis.html<br>
</a><a href="http://www.webdelsol.com/Double_Room/issue_three/Elizabeth_Willis.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.webdelsol.com/Double_Room/issue_three/Elizabeth_Willis.html<br>
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