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Release:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Caduceus 4
Publication
Celebrated with Poetry </span><st1:City><st1:place><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Reading</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">There will be a
poetry
reading at the Yale Medical School Sterling Hall of Medicine<span
style=""> </span>Beaumont Room, 333 Cedar Street in New Haven
on December 15<sup>th</sup> from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. to celebrate
the forth
volume of the poetry anthology Caduceus edited by Tony Fusco. The
Poetry
collection is published by </span><st1:Street><st1:address><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Art Place</span></st1:address></st1:Street><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> the award winning innovative program
sponsored by the
Yale Medical Group which uses art to enhance and elevate the medical
environment for patients, staff and visitors to the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Yale</span></st1:PlaceName><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><st1:PlaceName><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Physicians</span></st1:PlaceName><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><st1:PlaceType><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Building</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">This
collection features some poets whose reputations and accomplishments
are
extraordinary,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">including
Maxine Kumin, Poet Laureate of Alabama Susan Walker, Recent Connecticut
Poet Laureate Marilyn
Nelson, Vivian Shipley, Jack Bedell and many others.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">Richard
Bowering, Jr.’s poem <i>In This Dream, I Turn Around And Find My
Father’s
Grandfather Alive Again</i> is the first winner of the Southern
Connecticut State
University graduate student poetry contest. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">Caduceus
includes a significant amount of work by poets who work in the health
care
areas and who provide a unique and enlightening perspective to the joys
and
sorrows of our world. Included in this collection is work from Yale
physicians
Frank Bia and Laura Manuelides.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">Caduceus is not however,
entirely of
or about the medical experience, but about life and common humanity.
Shula
Chernoff’s poems are from her new book <i>the Stones Bear Witness</i>
which is
reviewed in this journal by editorial assistant Lisa Siedlarz. Jack
Bedell
speaks of family and history with his </span><st1:State><st1:place><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">Louisiana</span></st1:place></st1:State><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;"> charm with poems from <i>Come
Rain,
Come Shine.</i> Paola Corso’s <i>My Italian Grandmother’s Advice When
I left
Pittsburgh For New York City </i>tickles the funny bone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">The
stunning cover is the work of <span style=""> </span>nationally
acclaimed West Haven Artist Ellen Hoverkamp.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">The books will be
available for the reading enjoyment of patients, staff and faculty in
the waiting areas of the Yale Physician's building.<br>
Books
will also be available for purchase to defray the cost of printing and
can be
purchased at the reading or by contacting: Tony Fusco 203-785-3438, <a
href="mailto:Anthony.fusco@yale.edu">Anthony.fusco@yale.edu</a> There
is more
information on the web page: <a
href="http://www.yalemedicalgroup.org/artplace/Mainartplace.html">http://www.yalemedicalgroup.org/artplace/Mainartplace.html
</a><br>
<a href="http://www.yalemedicalgroup.org/artplace/Mainartplace.html"> </a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: "Garamond (OTF)";"><o:p> Tony
Fusco<br>
300 George Street 6th floor<br>
New Haven, CT 06536<br>
203-785-3438<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:anthony.fusco@yale.edu">anthony.fusco@yale.edu</a><br>
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<pre wrap="">Shulamith Chernoff will read from her first collection of poetry, The Stones
Bear Witness on Thursday, Novermber 30th , 6 p.m. at the Yale bookstore,77
Broadway, New Haven,CT. She is an Associate Professor Emerita at Southern
Connecticut State University, where she served as a specialist in early
childhood education. She has translated a holocaust survivor's memoirs, and has
published in several literary reviews, the Connecticut Review, the Louliisiana
review, and Caduceus. She won first prize in the Magnes Musium's fourteenth
annual international poetry contest on Jewish themes in the category of
emergent poet..Information can be obtained from Richard Carlson at the Yale
bookstore.
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