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font-family:Arial'>WORD OF MOUTH, THE MONTHLY <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
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WELCOMES<br>
<br>
PETER COLE<br>
<br>
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 <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Great Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
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 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Princeton</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
Presss 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 JAccuse, by Aharon Shabtai (New Directions), he lives in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:City>, where he
co-edits Ibis Editions, a small-press dedicated to the publication of
Levant-related literature. He is currently a Franke Fellow at Yales
Whitney Institute of the Humanities.<br>
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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/" title="http://www.allgallery.org/">www.allgallery.org</a>
or call 203-671-5175.<br>
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