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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
color:red'>WORD OF MOUTH POETRY SERIES</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
color:red'>Featuring Ravi Shankar</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:14.5pt;color:blue'>Thursday, February 19, 2009</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:blue'>6:30 PM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#333333'>Doors
Open at 6:30. Open mike at 7:00.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#333333'>Please
arrive a few minutes early to sign up for open mike.<br>
<br>
The Institute Library<br>
847 Chapel Street<br>
New Haven, CT</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
background:#9DE0EF'>Ravi</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> Shankar is Associate Professor and
Poet-in-Residence at Central Connecticut State University and the founding
editor of the international online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat
. He has published a book of poems, <i>Instrumentality</i> (Cherry
Grove), named a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards, and with Reb
Livingston, a collaborative chapbook, <i>Wanton Textiles</i> (No Tell
Books, 2006). His creative and critical work has previously appeared in such
publications as <i>The Paris Review, Poets & Writers, Time Out New
York, The Massachusetts Review, Fulcrum, McSweeney's and AWP's The Writer's
Chronicle</i>, among many others. He has taught at Queens College, University
of New Haven, and Columbia University, where he received his MFA in Poetry. He
has appeared as a commentator on NPR, BBC and Wesleyan Radio. He
currently serves on the Advisory Council for the Connecticut Center for the
Book and along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he edited<i>Language for a
New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond.</i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333'>On the third Thursday of each
month, Word of Mouth Poetry Series celebrates an eclectic mix of poetic voices.
Free. Refreshments. Open mike. Outstanding featured readers. In a casual
setting. Open to all members of the public and others. For more information,
please contact<a href="mailto:allwordofmouth@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span
style='color:#2357C3;text-decoration:none'>allwordofmouth@gmail.com</span></a> or <a
href="mailto:mcguireschwartz@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:
#2357C3;text-decoration:none'>mcguireschwartz@gmail.com</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='color:#333333'>Word of Mouth is an affiliate of Arts and
Literature Laboratory. Please visit our website at <a
href="http://allgallery.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#2357C3;
text-decoration:none'>allgallery.org</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><i><span style='color:black'> </span></i><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='color:black'>Please also support our sister series, Wednesday Night
Poetry Series and visit the WNPS website at <a href="http://wedpoetry.net"
target="_blank"><span style='color:#2A5DB0'>wedpoetry.net</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><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>
<br>
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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