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OF MOUTH, THE MONTHLY READING SERIES @ ARTS + LITERATURE LABORATORY
WELCOMES<br>
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PETER COLE<br>
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Friday, November 17 at 7pm <br>
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PETER COLE has published two collections of poetry, Rift and Hymns &
Qualms. What Is Doubled: Poems 1981-1998 was recently published in Great
Britain. Cole has published many volumes of translations from
medieval and modern Hebrew and Arabic, most recently, So What: New &
Selected Poems, 1971-2005, by Taha Muhammad Ali (Copper Canyon Press).
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain,
950-1492 is forthcoming from Princeton University Press’s Lockert Library
of Translation series. Cole has received numerous awards for his work,
including a TLS Translation Prize for Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn
Gabirol and the MLA Translation Prize for Selected Poems of Shmuel
HaNagid (both Princeton), as well as fellowships from the NEH, the NEA,
and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Winner of the 2004 PEN-America
Translation Award, for J’Accuse, by Aharon Shabtai (New Directions), he
lives in Jerusalem, where he co-edits Ibis Editions, a small-press
dedicated to the publication of Levant-related literature. He is
currently a Franke Fellow at Yale’s Whitney Institute of the
Humanities.<br><br>
An open mic will start the evening. <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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Arts & Literature Laboratory ERECTOR SQUARE BUILDING 2, 319 PECK
STREET, NEW HAVEN, CT</font></blockquote>
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