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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><b>Poet John Hollander reading,
Thursday, April 24, 2008, 4 pm <br>
Whitney Humanities Center Room 208, 53 Wall Street<font size=7><br>
</b></font><font size=2>The Whitney Humanities Center is proud to host
the distinguished poet John Hollander reading from his new book<i> A
Draft of Light</i> on Thursday, April 24, 2008, at 4 pm.<i><br><br>
</i>Often profoundly philosophical and playful at the same moment,
Hollander's poems are always the work of a master craftsman. The
author of eighteen collections of poetry and ten books of criticism,
Hollander has been awarded the Bollingen Prize, the Levinson Prize, and
the MLA Shaughnessy Medal, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Endowment for the
Arts. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the
current poet laureate of Connecticut, Hollander is the Sterling Professor
emeritus of English at Yale, where he remains a beloved teacher of poetry
writing as well as of poetry reading and interpretation.<br><br>
Advanced copies of<i> A Draft of Light</i> will be available for purchase
and signing after the reading.<br><br>
The event is free and open to the public. For more information
contact Manana Sikic at 203-432-0673 or
e-mail</font><font size=2 color="#0000FF"><u>
manana.sikic@yale.edu</u></font><font size=2><br>
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