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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>Ordinary Evening Reading Series Presents <br>
Major Jackson and Lynne Sharon Schwartz <br>
at the Anchor Bar, New Haven<br>
Tuesday, May 19th, 7 PM</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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Revel in late spring with us as we enjoy the final reading of our Spring 2009
season with <b>Major Jackson and Lynne Sharon Schwartz, at 7PM on Tuesday May
19th </b>in the Anchor Bar’s Mermaid Room, 272 College Street in New Haven.<br>
<br>
"Seeing me chatter<br>
with history's tinted saints, you moaned a language<br>
of rivers, of cathedrals, boxelders and pines, the skin<br>
we pressed our bodies into when hounds trailed close as sin,<br>
when hummingbirds entered the heart as if caged<br>
by their own sweet will, and I listened to the birth<br>
of a forest that grew deep in my ribs, the wet thickets<br>
of blackberry tangle, bracken and motes of gnats,<br>
bramble snapped and mossed over like some tattered<br>
blanket of a lesser god."<br>
<br>
--Major Jackson, "Urban Renewal: vi. To Sonia Sanchez II and Chinua
Achebe"<br>
<br>
"I grasped that the presence of any living creature would be a burden to
me, except maybe a plant. The least burdened state would be solitude,
where I could indulge every arbitrary mood without the slightest thought for
its effect on others. But solitude too has its burdens and demands.
There is really no easy way to be conscious;<br>
that must be why I revere sleep."<br>
<br>
--Lynne Sharon Schwartz, "Face to Face"<br>
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<b>Major Jackson</b>'s books of poems are <i>Hoops</i> (2006, Norton) and <i>Leaving
Saturn</i> (2002, University of Georgia Press). He has published poems and
essays in <i>American Poetry Review, Callaloo, The New Yorker, Poetry,</i> and
other literary magazines. <i>Hoops</i> was selected as a finalist for a NAACP
Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry, and <i>Leaving
Saturn</i> was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems
and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His
third volume of poetry <i>Holding Company</i> is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.
He has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is a
recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and has been honored by the Pew
Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the
Library of Congress. He served as a creative arts fellow at the Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He took a B.A. from Temple
University and an M.F.A. from the University of Oregon. Mr. Jackson has worked
as the curator of literary arts at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia
and the Mountain Writers' Center in Portland, and has taught at Columbia
University, Xavier University of Louisiana, New York University, and University
of Massachusetts - Lowell as the Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence. He lives in Burlington,
Vermont, where he is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at University
of Vermont. He serves as the Poetry Editor of the <i>Harvard Review</i>.<br>
<br>
<b>Lynne Sharon Schwartz</b>’s most recent book is the memoir, <i>Not Now,
Voyager,</i> just out from Counterpoint. Among her 21 books are the novels <i>The
Writing on the Wall; In the Family Way, Disturbances in the Field; Leaving
Brooklyn</i> (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award) and <i>Rough Strife</i>
(nominated for a National Book Award). She is also the author of the poetry collection,
<i>In Solitary</i>; the memoir, <i>Ruined by Reading</i>, and, most recently,
she edited <i>The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W.G. Sebald</i>, a
collection of essays and interviews. Her work has been reprinted in <i>The Best
American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Essays</i>,
and many other anthologies, and her reviews have appeared in leading magazines
and newspapers. She teaches at the Bennington Writing Seminars.<br>
<br>
<b>Mark your calendars! We’ll be back in swing Tuesday, September 15.</b> The
Ordinary Evening Reading Series features readings by poets, novelists, and
non-fiction writers. We welcome drinkers and teetotalers alike and hope you can
join us for what the New Haven Independent called "one of those unofficial
civic ventures that make New Haven such a vibrant place." <br>
<br>
Read writers' biographies, find links, send us an email, and more at <a
href="http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com." target="_blank">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
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