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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><div align="center"><b>ORDINARY
EVENING READING SERIES<br>
SWINGS WIDE THE DOORS AGAIN THIS FALL <br>
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</b>In the midst of back-to-school action, give yourself a break, too!
The Ordinary Evening reading series kicks off its autumn 2007 season on
<b>Tuesday September 18 at 7pm</b> with former Connecticut poet laureate
<b>Marilyn Nelson</b> and novelist and poet <b>Sarah Pemberton
Strong</b>. As always, we're in the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room
(downstairs), 272 College Street at Chapel. (203) 865-1512. <br>
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<font size=2>Poet <b>Marilyn Nelson</b> is the author or translator of
twelve books and three chapbooks. Her books have won many honors,
including three finalist honors for the National Book Award, the Poets'
Prize, the Boston Globe/Hornbook Award, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award,
one Newbery and two Coretta Scott King honors, finalist honors for the
Los Angeles Times Book Award, the American Scandinavian Society
Translation Prize, and the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in
North American Poetry. Nelson is a professor emeritus of English at the
University of Connecticut; founder and director of Soul Mountain Retreat,
a small writers' colony; and the Poet Laureate of the State of
Connecticut from 2001 through 2006.<br><br>
<b>Sarah Pemberton Strong</b> is the author of a novel, <i>Burning the
Sea</i>, which was on the <i>Boston Globe</i> Top 10 bestseller list in
2002. Her poetry has appeared in <i>The Southern Review</i>, <i>Spoon
River Poetry Review</i>, <i>Cream City Review</i>, <i>Atlanta Review</i>,
<i>The Sun </i>and elsewhere. She teaches poetry workshops at Arts and
Literature Lab in New Haven and is currently completing her second novel,
<i>The Fainting Room</i>. Her website is
<a href="http://www.sarahpembertonstrong.com/">
www.sarahpembertonstrong.com</a>.<br>
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<font size=2><b>MARK YOUR CALENDARS<br>
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<font size=2>This season's lineup offers an eclectic mix of poetry,
fiction, non-fiction and drama from local and further-flung writers,
including Laura M. MacDonald and Amy Bloom (10/16); Judith Baumel and
Martha Cooley (11/13); and Robert Ackerman and Tom Gavin (12/11). For
biographies, links to poems and other information, visit
<a href="http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/">
http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/</a>. <br>
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<font size=2><b>ABOUT THE ORDINARY EVENING SERIES <br>
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<font size=2>Started in spring 2005, the
<a href="http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/">Ordinary Evening reading
series</a> features both emerging and established writers in a monthly
reading at the Anchor Bar Mermaid Room, downstairs. Borrowing its name
from the poem "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" by Wallace
Stevens, the series aims to bring writers and audiences together in a
no-fuss, informal environment to enjoy a little storytelling on a
work-night. Readings are always on a Tuesday at 7pm, free of charge, both
drinkers and teetotalers welcome. <br>
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