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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:red'>WORD OF MOUTH POETRY SERIES</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:red'>Featuring Claire Zoghb</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:18.0pt;color:red'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:14.5pt;color:blue'>Thursday, November 19, 2009</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:blue'>6:30 PM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='color:#333333'>Doors Open at 6:30. Reading starts at 7:00.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='color:#333333'>Please arrive a few minutes early to sign up for the
reading.<br>
<br>
The Institute Library<br>
847 Chapel Street<br>
New Haven, CT</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Claire Zoghb’s
first full-length collection, <i>Small House Breathing</i>, won the 2008
Quercus Review annual competition. A chapbook, <i>Dispatches
from Everest</i>, is forthcoming from Pudding House Press. Her work
has appeared in <i>Yankee, Connecticut Review, Connecticut River Review,
Caduceus, CALYX, Saranac Review, Mizna: Prose, Poetry and Art Exploring Arab
America, Natural Bridge, Quercus Review</i>, in the anthologies <i>Through
A Child’s Eyes: Poems and Stories About War</i> and <i>Eating Her
Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems. </i> Twice a Pushcart
Prize nominee, Claire was the winner of the 2008 Dogwood annual poetry
competition. She is a recipient of two Artist Fellowships from the Connecticut
Commission on Culture & Tourism, an Urban Artists Initiative grant, a
residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and has earned a certificate from the
Amherst Writers and Artists Institute. She lives in New Haven, where she works
as a graphic artist and book designer and teaches writing workshops for kids.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#333333'>On the third Thursday of each
month, Word of Mouth Poetry Series celebrates an eclectic mix of poetic voices.
Free. Refreshments. Open mike. Outstanding featured readers. In a casual
setting. Open to all members of the public and even others. For more
information, please contact<a href="mailto:allwordofmouth@gmail.com"
target="_blank"><span style='color:#2357C3'>allwordofmouth@gmail.com</span></a> or <a
href="mailto:mcguireschwartz@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:
#2357C3'>mcguireschwartz@gmail.com</span></a>. </span>Get current
information from our website, at the following link:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a
href="http://sites.google.com/site/wordofmouthpoetryseries/Home" target="_blank"><span
style='color:#2A5DB0'>http://sites.google.com/site/wordofmouthpoetryseries/Home</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#333333'>Word of Mouth is an affiliate of
Arts and Literature Laboratory. Please visit the ALL website at <a
href="http://allgallery.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#2357C3'>allgallery.org</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Please also support our sister series, Wednesday Night
Poetry Series and visit the WNPS website at <a href="http://wedpoetry.net/"
target="_blank"><span style='color:#2A5DB0'>wedpoetry.net</span></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 <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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