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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-variant:small-caps'>Ordinary Evening Reading
Series Presents Novelist/Memoirist Douglas Bauer and Poet Lisa Starr </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-variant:small-caps'>at the Anchor Bar, New Haven</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>Tuesday, March 24th, 7 PM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEW HAVEN,CT, March 4, 2009: Iowa
meets Rhode Island for this month’s Ordinary Evening! Novelist and memoirist
Douglas Bauer will join Rhode Island’s Poet Laureate Lisa Starr in a reading at
<b>7PM</b> on <b>Tuesday March 24th</b> in the <b>Anchor Bar’s</b> Mermaid
Room, 272 College Street in New Haven. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'>“What do you make of this
weather, Hoopie?” I ask. He shakes his head, winces
slightly. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'>“It’s all a tease,” he
says. “It’s all a tease. Gets everybody thinkin’ things
are gonna be great, see. Then they plant every damn seed they can
lay their hands on.” Spit. “I can just see it: Soon’s
everything’s in the ground, we’re gonna see a drouth like few have been
before.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'>I ask Hoop how he knows.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'>“Too good. Things are
going just too good to mean <i>something’s</i> not
up. I’ve never seen a spring like this.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>--Doug Bauer, <i>Prairie
City, Iowa</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'><b>For A Student In One Of My
Basic Writing Classes</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'>"<i>Not only are permanent
goodbyes the worse, but it is also one of the most horrible things about life
in general.”</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'><i>— Excerpt from a student's
essay, written, by the author's choice, on “saying goodbye.”</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'>May I just say that I love you,
Lauren Lonucci<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'>and that somehow your paper made
me weep?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'>You will find the words,
eventually,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'>you will learn to live with
grief.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'>Surely, your diction will
improve.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'>But your heart — your heart is
home already.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'>My young friend, you got this
sentence wrong<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'>about eight different ways,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'>but that bit about 'permanent
good-byes' —<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.0pt'>A+, A+, A+.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>--Lisa Starr<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arrus BT","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#29303B'>Douglas Bauer’s</span></strong><span style='color:#29303B'>
books include the novels </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#29303B'>Dexterity</span></em><span style='color:#29303B'>, </span><em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>The Very Air</span></em><span
style='color:#29303B'>, and </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#29303B'>The Book of Famous Iowans</span></em><span style='color:#29303B'>,
and the non-fiction books </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#29303B'>Prairie City, Iowa</span></em><span style='color:#29303B'> and </span><em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>The Stuff of Fiction</span></em><span
style='color:#29303B'>. He has edited two anthologies, </span><em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>Prime Times: Writers on
Their Favorite Television Shows</span></em><span style='color:#29303B'> and </span><em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>Death by Pad Thai and
Other Unforgettable Meals</span></em><span style='color:#29303B'>. His stories
and essays have been appeared in </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#29303B'>Esquire</span></em><span style='color:#29303B'>, </span><em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>The New York Times
Magazine</span></em><span style='color:#29303B'>, </span><em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>The Atlantic</span></em><span
style='color:#29303B'>, </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#29303B'>Harper’s</span></em><span style='color:#29303B'>, </span><em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>Sports Illustrated</span></em><span
style='color:#29303B'>, </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#29303B'>Tin House</span></em><span style='color:#29303B'>, </span><em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>Agni</span></em><span
style='color:#29303B'>, and many other magazines. He’s received grants from The
National Endowment for the Arts and The Massachusetts Arts Council.<br>
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Doug previously worked as a magazine editor and for several years as a
free-lance magazine writer. Since 2004, he’s been a professor of English at
Bennington College and, starting in 1994, a member of the core faculty of the
Bennington Writing Seminars. He lives in Boston with his wife and their two
dogs.<br>
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</span><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>Lisa
Starr’s</span></strong><span style='color:#29303B'> latest collection of poems
is </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>Mad
with Yellow</span></em><span style='color:#29303B'>, which was just published.
Rhode Island’s Poet Laureate, she moved to Block Island in 1986 and never
wanted to leave. With her husband, Champlin, and their children Orrin and
Camille, Lisa owns and operates the Hygeia House. Lisa is a two-time Rhode
Island poetry fellowship winner, a basketball coach, and a former college
instructor and waitress. Her two previous collections are </span><em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>Days of Dogs and
Driftwood</span></em><span style='color:#29303B'> (1993) and </span><em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>This Place Here</span></em><span
style='color:#29303B'> (2001), and her individual works have appeared in
journals and publications around the country. Lisa is also the founder and
director of the Block Island Poetry Project.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Ordinary Evening's Spring 2009
season includes readings by poets, novelists, and non-fiction writers. 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://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/">http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com</a>
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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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