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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Ordinary Evening Reading Series Presents<br>
Eugenia Kim and Tim Parrish</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>at the Anchor Bar, New Haven</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Tuesday, September 15, 7pm</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Ring in
the new school year (and Ordinary Evening’s Fall 2009 season) with readings
from novelist Eugenia Kim and fiction and non-fiction writer Tim Parrish at <b>7PM
on Tuesday September 15th in the Anchor Bar’s Mermaid Room</b>, 272 College
Street in New Haven.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>"The magical leaflets dropped by B-29s
that had announced Japan's unconditional surrender could still be found
scattered throughout the city - caught in a treetop, composting in a gutter,
happily displayed in a store window next to the flyer from the first drop,
which transcribed Hirohito's unprecedented radio capitulation. I went outside
often to eagerly scan the heavens for those sweet silver birds whose high
mechanical roars had heralded freedom."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;
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font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>- from <i>The Calligrapher's Daughter </i>by
Eugenia Kim</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>"R. T. and I took a helicopter to work
and we weren't rich men. We were roustabouts twenty-three miles offshore. A
production platform, not a drilling rig, and I've got ten fingers to prove it.
Out there, blue sky over us, blue sea under us, we pumped the vein, maybe even
sucked from the heart. It thrilled me to think how deep we went."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>- from "Roustabout" in <i>Red
Stick Men</i> by Tim Parrish</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Eugenia
Kim</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
is the daughter of Korean immigrant parents who came to America shortly after
the Pacific War. She has published short stories and essays in journals and
anthologies, including <i>Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings</i>,
and is an MFA graduate of Bennington College. She lives in Washington, D.C.,
with her husband and son. <i>The Calligrapher’s Daughter</i> is her first
novel.<br>
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<b>Tim Parrish</b> is author of <i>Red Stick Men</i>, a collection of stories
set in and around his hometown of Baton Rouge. His most recent fiction and
nonfiction appear in <i>Cincinnati Review, Idaho Review, Hotel Amerika,</i> and
in the anthologies <i>Alive and Awake in the Pelican State</i> (LSU Press) and <i>Louisiana
in Words </i>(Pelican Press). He has a story and an essay forthcoming in <i>Maanha</i>,
an upcoming on-line journal of North American and Iranian writers. He is
currently at work on a memoir, entitled <i>Southern Man</i>, about being raised
a racist, fundamentalist Southern Baptist and subsequently becoming involved in
street and race violence. He has received a Gerald E. Freund Grant-in-Aid from
the Whiting Foundation and has received fellowships through the Connecticut
Arts Council and Sewanee Writers Conference. He teaches in the MFA and
undergraduate creative-writing programs at Southern Connecticut State
University.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Mark
your calendars! Our next reading is Tuesday, October 20.</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> 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 <i>New Haven Independent</i> called "one of those unofficial
civic ventures that make New Haven such a vibrant place." </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Check our
full fall schedule, read writers' biographies, send us an email, and more at <a
href="http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span
style='color:#2951A6'>http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com</span></a>. </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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