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MOUTH, the monthly reading series @ ARTS + LITERATURE LABORATORY
welcomes</b> <br>
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Jason Zuzga & Jean-Paul Pecqueur<br>
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Friday, April 21 at 7pm<br>
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<b>Jason Zuzga</b> is the 2005-2006 James Merrill Writer-in-Residence and
was a recipient of a 2001-2002 Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. He
received an MFA in poetry and nonfiction from the University of Arizona
in 2005, and this fall he will begin as a candidate in the PhD program in
English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. His work has
appeared in FENCE, LIT, VOLT, jubilat, Tin House, and Forklift, Ohio<br>
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<b>Jean-Paul Pecqueur’s</b> poetry and criticism have appeared broadly in
journals such as American Letters & Commentary, Arts and Letters,
Rain Taxi, River City, Quarterly West, and ZYZZYVA. He is a
graduate of the University of Washingtons creative writing program where
he was the winner of the Academy of American Poets Harold Taylor
Prize. His first book, <i>The Case Against Happiness</i>, was the
2005 winner of Alice James Press’ New York/New England Prize and will be
released in the fall of 2006. Jean-Paul currently lives in Brooklyn
and teaches writing at York College and the Pratt Institute. <br>
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<b>PLEASE JOIN US!</b> An open mic will start the evening--come a few
minutes early to sign up.<br>
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For more information, please visit the website at
<a href="http://www.allgallery.org/">www.allgallery.org</a> or call
203-671-5175.<br>
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<font face="arial"><b>Please note the Arts & Literature Laboratory
has moved to <br>
ERECTOR SQUARE BUILDING 2 , 319 PECK STREET, NEW HAVEN,
CT</b></font></blockquote>
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