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CONTACT:</b><x-tab>
</x-tab>Dorie Baker
203-432-8553 or dorie.baker@yale.edu<br>
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</x-tab>Manana Sikic
203-432-0673 or manana.sikic@yale.edu<br><br>
<b><i><u>Louise Glück to Moderate Reading by Winners of the Yale Series
of Younger Poets Prize<br><br>
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</x-tab><b>New Haven,
Conn.-</b> The five most recent winners of the prestigious Yale Series of
Younger Poets competition will read from their work on Friday, May
2nd. Free and open to the public, the event will take place at the
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, Room 208, at 4:00
p.m.<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Awarded
since 1919, the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize celebrates the most
prominent new American poets by bringing the work of previously
unpublished artists to the attention of the larger public. Previous
winners of the prize include such talents as Adrienne Rich, John
Ashberry, and Robert Hass. It is the longest-running poetry prize
in the United States.<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>The event
on May 2nd will be introduced and moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning
poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Glück, the Rosenkranz
Writer-in-Residence at Yale, and a fellow of Calhoun College. Ms.
Glück is also as the current judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets
competition.<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>The
featured poets for the event are Peter Streckfus, who won the prize in
2003; Richard Siken, the 2004 winner; Jay Hopler, the 2005 winner;
Jessica Fisher, the 2006 winner; and Fady Joudah, the 2007 winner and
most recent recipient of the prize. The poets will read from recent
work.<br><br>
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</x-tab>Peter
Streckfus</b> teaches creative writing at The University of
Alabama. His prize-winning book, "The Cuckoo," received
much positive critical attention, including this from the<i> Virginia
Quarterly Review</i>: "The pleasures in 'The Cuckoo' are many;
Streckfus's sense of humor is quite fetching, as are his social awareness
lyrics. . . . [A] promising debut collection." <b> Richard
Siken's</b> book, "Crush," which won the Yale Series of Younger
Poets prize, also won a Lambda Literary Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and
was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In a
review in<i> Rain Taxi</i>, his book was described as "An explosive,
frantic splash of language and imagery." <b> Jay Hopler</b>, who
teaches at the University of South Florida and is the editor of a
forthcoming anthology of</font><font face="Times, Times"> younger
American poetry, is the author of the critically acclaimed collection of
poems "Green Squall." <i> Publishers Weekly</i> called the
poems in "Green Squall" "truly stunning." <b> Jessica
Fisher</b> recently received her Ph.D. in English from the University of
California, Berkeley. <i> The New Yorker</i> called her book,
"Frail-Craft," "an intelligent, often playful
collection." <b> Fady Joudah</b> is a medical doctor in Houston and
a member of Doctors Without Borders. His book, "The Earth in
the Attic," is, in the author's own words, "a book of exile...a
metaphor for current psychic reality."<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>The poetry
reading is sponsored jointly by Yale University Press and the Whitney
Humanities Center.<br>
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<font size=2>Program Coordinator</font><br>
Whitney Humanities Center<br>
Yale University<br>
53 Wall Street<br>
P.O. Box 208298<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8298<br>
Tel. 203 432-0673<br>
Fax. 203 432-1087<br>
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