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A poetry reading by Kwame Dawes and Marilyn Nelson<br><br>
Wednesday, November 9, 4pm<br>
Beinecke Library<br>
121 Wall Street<br><br>
Kwame Dawes, poet, actor, editor, musician, and playwright, is professor
of English at the University of South Carolina. His latest volumes of
poetry are New and Selected Poems (2003) and the chapbook Bruised Totems
(2004)<br><br>
"Dawes is opening up a new aesthetic space in Caribbean Poetry.
" David Dabydeen<br><br>
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Marilyn Nelson is Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut, professor
emerita at the University of Connecticut, and founder of Soul Mountain
Retreat, a writers' colony in East Haddam, CT. Among her latest volumes
of poetry are Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem (2003)
and The Cachoeira Tales And Other Poems (2005), and forthcoming
translations of the Danish poet Halfdan Rasmussen<br><br>
Free and open to the public -- Reception follows<br><br>
Sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the
Department of African-American Studies at Yale University<br>
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