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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Xhenet Aliu and Nancy
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Thursday, September 24th at 8
p.m. in Southern Connecticut</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>State University's Engleman
Hall's D-Wing room 253</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b>Xhenet Aliu</b> received a B.A. in English from <span
class=yshortcuts>Southern Connecticut State University</span> and an M.F.A. in <span
class=yshortcuts>Creative Writing</span> from the University of North
Carolina-Wilmington. Her fiction has appeared in magazines such as <span
class=yshortcuts><i>Glimmer Train</i></span> and <i>The Barcelona Review</i>,
and she has been awarded various travel grants and scholarships for her
writing, most recently by the <span class=yshortcuts>Bread Loaf Writers
Conference</span>, for which she served as a staff member in 2009. A former
newspaper writer, waitress and teacher, among other occupations, she is now
resident of Brooklyn, N.Y., where she currently works for a <span
class=yshortcuts>private investigation agency</span> and is completing a
collection of short stories and a novel. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><span style='color:black'>Nancy Kuhl’s</span></b><span
style='color:black'> second full-length collection of poems, <em>Suspend, </em>is
forthcoming in 2010 from <a
href="http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/home.html" target="_blank">Shearsman</a><a
href="http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/home.html" target="_blank"> Books</a>;
her first book, <em>The Wife of the Left Hand,</em> was published in 2007. She
is the author of three chapbooks,<a
href="http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/page-nocturnal.html" target="_blank"><em>
The Nocturnal Factory</em></a>, published in 2008 by <a
href="http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/" target="_blank">Ugly Duckling Presse</a>,
<a href="http://www.propolispress.com/meansofsecuring.html" target="_blank"><em>Means
of Securing Houses &c. from Mischief by Thunder and Lightning</em></a>,
published by <a href="http://www.propolispress.com/" target="_blank">Propolis</a><a
href="http://www.propolispress.com/" target="_blank"> Press</a> in February
2009, and<em> In the Arbor</em>, which was a winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook
Prize and was published by <a href="http://upress.kent.edu/books/Kuhl.htm"
target="_blank">Kent State University Press</a>. </span>She is <span
style='color:black'>Curator of Poetry for the Yale Collection of American
Literature at the <a href="http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/"
target="_blank">Beinecke</a><a href="http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/"
target="_blank"> Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a> at Yale University. </span>With
Richard Deming s<span style='color:black'>he is co-editor of <a
href="http://www.phylumpress.com/" target="_blank">Phylum Press</a>, a small
poetry publisher</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>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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