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SERIES CELEBRATES TWO PRIZEWINNING AUTHORS: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>POET CAMERON GEAREN AND
NOVELIST ALICE MATTISON <br>
Tuesday, September 16, 7pm</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>The Ordinary Evening
Reading Series celebrates Autumn and all its beginnings with readings by poet
Cameron Gearen and by novelist and Ordinary Evening co-curator Alice Mattison,
whose new novel, <i>Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn,</i> is released
that very day! Join us at 7 pm on Tuesday, September 16th, at the Anchor
Bar's Mermaid Room (downstairs), 272 College Street at Chapel. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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… Come
with stones and a selectively green car.<br>
I've set aside a
weekend for crying and sleeping.<br>
You weren't there when I
stretched the laundry<br>
crossways.<br>
Wishing a
homestead, wailing like that hound.<br>
Doors sound like
airplanes taking off.<br>
If I thought
you were listening, love. <br>
- from "Invitation" by Cameron Gearen<br>
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…
what interests me most about Con is not exactly that she could remember and
learn—who can do that?—but that when she discovered, in middle age,
that more than fourteen years earlier she'd failed to pay attention, she tried
to find out what she needed to know, even though she didn't want to. <br>
- from <i>Nothing Is
Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn</i> by Alice Mattison</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Cameron Gearen</b> was born in New Haven and grew up in Oak Park, Illinois.
She has published a chapbook of poetry entitled <i>Night, Relative to Day</i>
that was selected by Robert Pinsky (2004). Her poetry has appeared in <i>Fence</i>,
<i>The Antioch Review</i>, <i>Crazyhorse</i>, <i>Poetry Northwest</i>, <i>The
Bellingham Review</i>, <i>River Styx</i>, <i>Quarterly West</i>, <i>Another
Chicago Magazine</i>, <i>Northwest Review</i> and elsewhere. She won the
Grolier Prize in 1994, the W.B. Yeats Society Poetry Contest in 2001 and the
2005 Lynda Hull Prize from <i>Crazyhorse</i>. She currently teaches in the
English Department at Hamden Hall Country Day School.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>An excerpt from <b>Alice
Mattison's</b> soon-to-be released novel, <i>Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in
Brooklyn</i>, (Harper Collins) appeared recently in <i>The New Yorker</i>. Her
most recent book, <i>In Case We're Separated: Connected Stories</i>, was a <i>New
York Times</i> Notable Book of the Year in 2005 and won the Connecticut Book
Award for fiction. She is the author of four other novels and three other
collections of stories. She lives in New Haven and teaches in the MFA program
at Bennington College in Vermont, and in the Fine Arts Work Center summer
workshops in Provincetown, MA.<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ordinary
Evening's Fall 2008 season promises a wide diversity of excellent writers:
non-fiction writers Jonathan Spence and Lisa Sanders (10/14), novelist Martha
Southgate and fiction writer Liz Edelglass (11/18), and novelist Patricia Volk
and non-fiction writer Charles Barber (12/16). We welcome drinkers and
teetotalers alike and hope you can join us for what the <i>New Haven
Independent</i> called "one of those unofficial civic ventures that make
New Haven such a vibrant place." <br>
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Read writers' biographies, find links, send us an email, and more at <a
href="http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/</a>.<span
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<span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The
Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American
Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements
about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text of the announcement,
including contact information, to <a
href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings">nancy.kuhl at
yale.edu.</a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be
posted. <br>
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: <a
href="https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com">https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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