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Please join us for a poetry reading by poet Cole Swensen on Thursday,
November 10th, 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.edu.<br><br>
Cole Swensen is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Goest
(2004), which was nominated for the National Book Award. Her next
collection, The Book of a Hundred Hands, will be published by University
of Iowa Press in 2005. She has been awarded a National Poetry Series
Prize, Sun & Moon's New American Writing Award, the Iowa Poetry
Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, and a Pushcart
Prize. Her translations of contemporary French fiction, art criticism,
and poetry, including Olivier Cadiot's Future, Former, Fugitive, Pierre
Alferi's OXO, and Jean Frémon's The Island of the Dead, have received
critical praise and awards including the 2004 PEN USA Literary Award for
Translation. She has received grants from the Association Beaumarchais
and the French Bureau du Livre. She is currently on the faculty at the
Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa.<br><br>
For information about and examples of Cole Swensen's work visit:<br>
<a href="http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2004_cswensen.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2004_cswensen.htm<br>
</a><a href="http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/goest.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/goest.html<br>
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<a href="http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/Archives/Winter_2003/Interviews/interviews.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/Archives/Winter_2003/Interviews/interviews.htm<br>
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<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/13/swensen-4.html" eudora="autourl">
http://jacketmagazine.com/13/swensen-4.html<br><br>
</a>For additional information please contact Nancy Kuhl at 432-2966 or
nancy.kuhl@yale.edu<br><br>
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