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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=4>Friendly reminder
about New Haven's<br>
ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES </font><br><br>
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The Ordinary Evening Series takes place in the downstairs Mermaid Room of
the Anchor Bar & Restaurant, 272 College Street near Chapel. (203)
865-1512. Join us for our semester send-off tomorrow - we'd love to see
you!<br><br>
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<font size=4>Tuesday, December 19, 7 PM</font><br><br>
Gabriel Gudding is the author of two books, A Defense of Poetry (Pitt
Poetry Series, 2002) and rhode island notebook (Dalkey Archive Press,
forthcoming 2008), which was written entirely in his <br>
car during 25 roundtrips on the highways between Providence, Rhode Island
and Normal, Illinois. A resident of Normal, Illinois since 2002, he's an
Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative > Writing at Illinois
State University, teaching "experimental poetry." Gudding's
work has appeared in such venues as New American Writing, LIT, Fence,
American Poetry Review, Sentence, Jacket, and <br>
has been anthologized in Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the
Present (Scribner, 2003). He is a trained mediator for Illinois State,
has begun two creative writing programs in prisons, and<br>
maintains a blog, Conchology. <br><br>
Rosanna Warren was born in Connecticut in 1953. She was educated at Yale
(BA 1976) and Johns Hopkins (MA 1980). She is the author of one chapbook
of poems (Snow Day, Palaemon Press, 1981), and three collections of
poems: Each Leaf Shines Separate (Norton, 1984), Stained Glass (Norton,
1993), and Departure (Norton, 2003). She edited and contributed to The
Art of Translation: Voices from the Field (Northeastern, 1989), and has
edited three chapbooks of poetry by prisoners. With her husband, Stephen
Scully, she translated Euripides' Suppliant Women for Oxford University
Press (1992). She has won Fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation, ACLS, The Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Lila Wallace
Readers' Digest Fund, among others. Stained Glass won the Lamont Poetry
Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has won the Witter Bynner
Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Lavan Younger
Poets' Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and the Award of Merit
in Poetry from The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. She was
a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999 - 2005. She is a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2004-2005 she was president of
the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. She is Emma MacLachlan
Metcalf Professor of the Humanities at Boston University. <br><br>
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<a href="http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/">
http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/</a> <br>
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