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<p class=MsoNormal>Lucille Clifton, Poetry Reading<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Tuesday, December 2, 5:30pm<br>
Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street <span style='color:red'>(NOTE:
this event will not take place at Beinecke Library)</span><br>
<em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Co-sponsored by the Yale
Collection of American Literature </span></em><br>
<em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Reading Series and New Ideas
in African American Studies</span></em><br>
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu<strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
font-weight:normal'>Please join us for a poetry reading by Lucille Clifton on </span></strong><span
style='color:black'>Tuesday, December 2, 5:30pm</span> at the Yale Center for
British Art, 1080 Chapel Street. This event is co-sponsored by the Yale
Collection of American Literature Reading Series and New Ideas in African
American Studies; the reading is free and open to the public. For additional
information about poetry at the Beinecke Library visit: <a
href="http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/">http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/</a>.
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><strong><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>Lucille Clifton</span></strong><b>
</b>is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including <em><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Good News About the Earth, An
Ordinary Woman, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980, The Book of Light,
Quilting: Poems 1987-1990, Next: New Poems, and Blessing the Boats: New and
Selected Poems 1988-2000</span></em>. She has been awarded the National Book
Award, the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize, an Emmy Award from
the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a Lannan Literary Award,
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Shelley Memorial
Award, and the Ruth Lilly Prize.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>For
more information about Lucille Clifton and examples of her work visit:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a
href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/79">http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/79</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a
href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1304">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1304</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Clifton">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Clifton</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Audio
Online<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Podcast
Interview with Clifton: <a
href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/audioitem.html?id=110">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/audioitem.html?id=110</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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></p>
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