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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Ordinary
Evening Reading Series Presents </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>April
Bernard and Jude Stewart </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>at
the Anchor Bar, New Haven</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Tuesday,
December 15th, 7 PM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Start making merry
early with us as we enjoy readings from Guggenheim-winning poet April Bernard
and nonfiction writer (and OE co-curator) Jude Stewart <b>7PM on Tuesday,
December 15<sup>th</sup>, in the Anchor Bar’s Mermaid Room</b>, 272 College
Street in New Haven.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>.
. . .a tree, a smallish maple,<br>
fire-gold and half-undone by the wind,<br>
shaking in itself,<br>
shocking blue morning sky behind, and also<br>
the trucks and telephone wires and dogs<br>
and children late to school along Orange Street, but<br>
it was the tree that caused an uproar,<br>
it was the tree that shook and shed,<br>
aureate as a shaken soul, I remembered<br>
I was supposed to have one--</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal 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 "Beagle or Something”, in <i>Romanticism</i>,
by April Bernard</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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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 class=MsoNormal 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"'>Color is a daily mystery we all swim in. In
the cartoon strip of everyday life, panel after panel is crammed with colored
objects, every blank outline shaded in: pencils, subways, umbrellas, ties,
cherries, leaves, smoke. Color is so ubiquitous, it’s invisible – until
suddenly, it’s not. To be startled by color lifts a scrim, behind which teems
the alienness of the world. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal 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 class=MsoNormal 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 a forthcoming book about color<i> </i>by
Jude Stewart</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><strong><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>April Bernard</span></strong><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> is an author and
teacher from Bennington, VT. She teaches at Bennington College and at Skidmore
College in New York.<br>
<br>
<em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Romanticism,</span></em>
April's most recent poetry collection, was published in June 2009. Her prior
publications include three books of poetry: <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Swan
Electric</span></em>, <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Psalms</span></em>,
and <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Blackbird Bye Bye</span></em>,
and one novel, <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Pirate
Jenny</span></em>. Her work has appeared in <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
New Yorker</span></em>, <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
Boston Review</span></em>, <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Agni</span></em>,
<em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Ploughshares</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Parnassus</span></em>, and <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The New York Review of Books </span></em>and
is included in <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Penguin
Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English </span></em>and
<em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>By Herself: Women Reclaim
Poetry</span></em>. She has also received a Guggenheim Award.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Jude Stewart</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> has written on
design, art and culture for <i>Slate</i>,<i> the Believer, I.D., Metropolis,
BusinessWeek</i>, <i>Nextbook</i> and <i>Print, </i>as well as a column on
color for <i>STEP Inside Design Magazine </i>which she is developing into a
book. She has lectured about design at RISD, the Adult Education series in
Brooklyn, and the Fachhochschule Mainz in Germany and been interviewed on
related topics on NPR's <i>Day to Day</i> and by Brian Lehrer on WNYC. Her
introduction to mobile architecture appears in <i>More Mobile: Portable
Architecture Today</i> (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Jude divides her
time between Berlin, Germany, and New Haven, where she is also co-curator of
the Ordinary Evening Reading Series. Read more at <a
href="https://email.hbs.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=e1bd696f19d04a9ba6811d907f05b01b&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.judestewart.com%2f"
target="_blank">www.judestewart.com</a> or follow her daily tweets on color at <a
href="https://email.hbs.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=e1bd696f19d04a9ba6811d907f05b01b&URL=http%3a%2f%2ftwitter.com%2fjoodstew"
target="_blank">twitter.com/joodstew</a>.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Get ready for
spring! Our first reading will be January 19.</span></b><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> The Ordinary Evening Reading Series
presents 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 class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Check out previous
and future reading dates, 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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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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