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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b>Yale
Writers Return to Yale<br>
Chang-rae Lee and Mark Strand<br>
Reading from their work<br>
<br>
5 p.m. Thursday, April 23, 2009<br>
Linsly-Chittenden 101, 63 High Street<br>
<br>
Sponsored by the Department of English<br>
Free and open to the public<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Chang-rae Lee </b>is an award-winning Korean-American
novelist. The author of three critically acclaimed novels--<i>Native Speaker </i>(1995),
<i>A Gesture Life </i>(1999), and <i>Aloft</i> (2004)--Lee examines the
politics and pathos of immigration and assimilation. <i>Native Speaker,</i>
which follows a Korean American's descent into espionage, won both the
PEN/Hemingway Award and the American Book award; after the publication of <i>The
Gesture Life,</i> The New Yorker named Lee one of the country's top twenty
novelists under the age of 40. A graduate of Yale's class of 1987, Lee
currently is a professor in the Council of the Humanities and the Program in
Creative Writing at Princeton University.<br>
<br>
<b>Mark Strand</b> is one of the most widely read and decorated poets of the
last fifty years. The author of thirteen books of poetry, numerous prose
volumes, and extensive translation from Spanish and Quechua, Strand has been
awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bobbit Prize, The
Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Wallace Stevens Award.<i> </i>He
is the former Poet Laureate of the United States and a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters. His <i>New Selected Poems</i> was released in 2007
by Knopf and is out in paperback. A graduate of the Yale Art School, Strand is
currently a professor of English at Columbia University.<br>
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<p>Susan Bianconi<br>
Associate Editor<br>
The Yale Review<br>
P. O. Box 208243<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8243<br>
203/432-0499 <br>
203/432-0510, fax<br>
<a href="mailto:susan.bianconi@yale.edu">susan.bianconi@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></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"><span
style='color:blue'>nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></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"><span style='color:blue'>https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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