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Please join us for poetry readings by Terrance Hayes and Major Jackson on
Thursday, February 1st, 2007, 4pm. This event is co-sponsored by the
African American Studies Department. The poets will be introduced by Yale
University graduate students Erica Levy and Andrew Nurkin. A reception
will follow; this event is free and open to the public. For additional
information about the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading
Series please visit
<a href="http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/2006-2007-readings-at-beinecke/" eudora="autourl">
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/" eudora="autourl">
http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/</a>.<br>
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Terrance Hayes is the author of <i>Hip Logic, Muscular Music</i>, and
most recently, <i>Wind in a Box.</i> He has been awarded a Whiting
Writers Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a National Poetry Series
award, a Pushcart Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship. Major Jackson is the author of two collections of poetry,
<i>Hoops</i> and <i>Leaving Saturn</i>, winner of the 2000 Cave Canem
Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He is
a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and has been honored by the Pew
Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction
with the Library of Congress. Major Jackson is an Associate Professor of
English at the University of Vermont and a faculty member of the
Bennington Writing Seminars.<br>
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For more information about and examples of Terrance Hayes’s and Major
Jackson’s work visit:<br>
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<b>Terrance Hayes<br>
</b><a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/437" eudora="autourl">
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/437<br>
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<a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~nidus/archives/winter2005/current/hayes.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.pitt.edu/~nidus/archives/winter2005/current/hayes.html<br>
</a><a href="http://www.jubilat.org/n6/hayes.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.jubilat.org/n6/hayes.html<br>
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<b>Major Jackson<br>
</b><a href="http://www.majorjackson.com/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.majorjackson.com/<br>
</a><a href="http://www.pewarts.org/95/Jackson/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.pewarts.org/95/Jackson/<br>
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<a href="http://www.cavecanempoets.org/pages/poems/oregon.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.cavecanempoets.org/pages/poems/oregon.html<br>
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