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<div align="center"><b>The Yale Reading<br><br>
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 7 p.m.<br><br>
St. Anthony Hall (483 College Street)<br><br>
Novelist Tom Perrotta and poet Rosanna Warren<br><br>
Sponsored by the Department of English and Branford College<br><br>
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Rosanna Warren is the Emma Ann MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the
Humanities at Boston University, where she teaches comparative
literature. She is the author of four books of poetry, including
<i>Departure</i> (2003) and <i>Stained Glass</i> (1993), which won the
Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets. She has also published a
translation of Euripides’ <i>Suppliant Women</i> with Stephen Scully
(1995) and edited several books, including <i>The Art of Translation:
Voices from the Field</i> (1989). She served as Chancellor of the Academy
of American Poets from 1999 to 2005. Her many honors include the Pushcart
Prize, the Award of Merit in Poetry and the Witter Bynner Prize from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, the May Sarton Prize, the Ingram
Merrill Foundation Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation
and the American Council of Learned Societies.<br>
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Tom Perrotta’s most recent novel, <i>The Abstinence Teacher</i>, was
published by St. Martin’s Press in 2007. He is author of four other
novels and a collection of short stories, including <i>Election</i>
(1998), which was adapted into a critically acclaimed film, <i>Joe
College</i> (2001), and <i>Little Children</i> (2004). <i>Little
Children</i> has been chosen for a number of “Best of 2004” lists,
including <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> and National Public
Radio, and Perrotta adapted it into an Oscar-nominated film with
writer/director Todd Field. He has taught creative and expository writing
at Yale University and Harvard University.<br><br>
The Yale Reading, an annual series, features writers who were students at
Yale.<br><br>
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 </blockquote>
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