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Please join us for a poetry reading by African American poet Claudia
Rankine on Wednesday, November 16th, 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>
Claudia Rankine is the author of collections of poetry including Don't
Let Me Be Lonely (2004); PLOT (2001); The End of the Alphabet (1998); and
Nothing in Nature is Private (1995), which received the Cleveland State
Poetry Prize. She recently received the 2005 Academy of American Poets
Fellowship, and Don't Let Me Be Lonely is currently a finalist for the
2005 Lenore Marshal Poetry Prize for the best book of poetry published in
2004. She is co-editor of American Women Poets in the Twenty-First
Century: Where Lyric Meets Language. She teaches in the writing
program at the University of Houston.<br><br>
For information about and examples of Claudia Rankine's work visit:<br>
<a href="http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/01_02/rankine-poem.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/01_02/rankine-poem.html<br>
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<a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19005" eudora="autourl">
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19005<br>
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<a href="http://www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/bios.php?name=crankine" eudora="autourl">
http://www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/bios.php?name=crankine<br><br>
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</a>For additional information please contact Nancy Kuhl at 432-2966 or
nancy.kuhl@yale.edu<br><br>
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