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<div align="center"><b>Eavan Boland<br><br>
Master's Tea<br>
</b>Thursday, February 7, 4 p.m., Jonathan Edwards College in the
"swing space," 100 Tower Parkway<br><br>
<b>Poetry Reading<br>
</b>Thursday, February 7, 7 p.m., Linsly-Chittenden 101 (63 High
Street)<br><br>
Sponsored by the Department of English and Jonathan Edwards
College<br><br>
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Born in Dublin in 1944, Eavan Boland is one of Ireland’s premier
contemporary poetic voices. Her ten books of poetryincluding this year’s
New Collected Poems (W.W. Norton and Company), joining An Origin Like
Water: Collected Poems 1967-87 document the challenges of modern
identity, filtered through lenses of Irish history, femininity, and the
trials of the everyday. In her poem “The Pomegranate,” Boland movingly
writes of her first encounter with the Eurydice myth as “an exiled child
in the crackling dust of/ the underworld, the stars blighted.” She has
taught at Bowdoin and Washington University, and has been Writer in
Residence at Trinity College and University College Dublin. She is on the
board of the Irish Arts Council and a member of the Irish Academy of
Letters, and is on the advisory board of the International Writers Center
at Washington University. She currently teaches English and writing at
Stanford.<br><br>
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Susan Bianconi<br>
Associate Editor<br>
The Yale Review<br>
P. O. Box 208243<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8243<br>
203/432-0499 <br>
203/432-0510, fax<br>
susan.bianconi@yale.edu <br><br>
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