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<p class=MsoNormal><b>Xhenet Aliu and Nancy Kuhl<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b>Thursday, September 24th at 8 p.m. in Southern
Connecticut<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b>State University's Engleman Hall's D-Wing room 253<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><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>Nancy Kuhl’s</b> second full-length collection of poems, <i>Suspend</i>,
is forthcoming in 2010 from Shearsman Books; her first book, <i>The Wife of the
Left Hand</i>, was published in 2007. She is the author of two chapbooks, <i>The
Nocturnal Factory</i>, published in 2008 by Ugly Duckling Presse and <i>In the
Arbor</i>, which was a winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize and was
published by Kent State University Press; <i>Means of Securing Houses &c.
from Mischief by Thunder and Lightning</i>, a limited edition artist's book
including Kuhl's work, was published by Propolis Press in February 2009.
She is co-editor of Phylum Press, a small poetry publisher, and Curator of
Poetry for the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book
and Manuscript Library at Yale University. More information: <a
href="http://www.phylumpress.com/nancykuhl.htm">http://www.phylumpress.com/nancykuhl.htm</a><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 </span><a
href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>nancy.kuhl at
yale.edu.</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: </span><a
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font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</span></a><span
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