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Please join us for a reading by poet John Ashbery on Wednesday, September
20th, 4 pm at Battell Chapel on the corner of College and Elm Streets. A
reception will follow; this event is free and open to the public on a
first come, first served basis. This is the first reading of the
2006-2007 Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series sponsored
by the Beinecke Library; the complete Series schedule is available online
at:
<a href="http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/2006-2007-readings-at-beinecke/">
http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/2006-2007-readings-at-beinecke/</a>.
For additional information about poetry at the Beinecke Library visit:
<a href="http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/">
http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/</a>.<br>
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John Ashbery’s many books of poetry include <i>Some Trees </i>(selected
by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series)<i>, Three Madrigals,
The Ice Storm, Girls on the Run, As Umbrellas Follow Rain, </i>and<i>
Chinese Whispers</i>. In 1976, his <i>Self-Portrait in a Convex
Mirror</i> won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the
National Book Critics Circle Award. Among many other honors, he has been
awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the MLA Common Wealth Award in Literature,
the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the Frank O'Hara Prize, and the
Shelley Memorial Award. He is Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of
Language and Literature at Bard College. <br>
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For more information and examples of John Ashbery’s work visit:<br>
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<a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/238">
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/238</a><br>
<a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/ashbery/" eudora="autourl">
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/ashbery/<br>
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<a href="http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/ashbery/ashbery.htm">
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/ashbery/ashbery.htm</a><br>
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