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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Ordinary
Evening Reading Series Presents </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Sheila
Kohler and Lisa Siedlarz </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>at the
Anchor Bar, New Haven</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Tuesday,
January 19th, 7 PM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Start fulfilling your New Year’s resolution to have more literary
fun by joining us for the celebrated novelist <b>Sheila Kohler</b> and the
prize-winning poet <b>Lisa Siedlarz</b> at 7PM on Tuesday, January 19th, in the
Anchor Bar’s Mermaid Room, 272 College Street in New Haven.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>“He wakes to the scratching of a
pencil against a page: a noise out of darkness. He lies quite still on his
back, reaching out for sound. His ears have become wings, straining,
stretching, carrying him away. The world comes to him only through sound, and
there is precious little of that.” </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> from <i>Becoming Jane
Eyre</i> by Sheila Kohler</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>“Saying goodbye was like wrapping
my arms</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>around these five foot swells</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>that crest and break where land
rises as sharply</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>as the C-130s carrying you
westward to Afghanistan.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The sea heaves wall after wall of
water,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>carrying sunlight across its
curves before folding</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>in on itself, hiding the sparkle
in an undertow.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> from <i>I Dream My
Brother Plays Baseball</i> by Lisa Siedlarz</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Sheila Kohler’s</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> most recent novel, <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Becoming Jane Eyre</span></em>, has
just been published by Viking, Penguin and was enthusiastically reviewed in the
<i>New York Times</i>. She has written six other novels: <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Perfect Place</span></em> (1989) ;
<em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The</span></em> <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>House on R Street</span></em> (1994); <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cracks</span></em> (1999); <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Children of </span></em><span
class=blsp-spelling-error>Pithiviers</span> (2001); <span
class=blsp-spelling-error><i>Crossways</i></span><em><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";font-style:normal'> </span></em>(2004); and <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bluebird or the Invention of Happiness</span></em>
(2007); and three collections of short stories: <em><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Miracles in America</span></em> (1990); <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>One Girl</span></em> (1999); and <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Stories from Another</span></em> <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>World</span></em> (2003). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><br>
Sheila has received the O.Henry Prize twice, along with the Open Voice Award,
the Smart Family Foundation prize, and many others. In addition, she was a
fellow at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. <span
class=blsp-spelling-error>Cullman</span> Center for Scholars and Writers.<br>
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An acclaimed instructor, Sheila has taught creative writing in many programs
including the <span class=blsp-spelling-error>Bennington</span> Writing
Seminars, the West Side YMCA, and Columbia's program in <span
class=blsp-spelling-error>Montolieu</span>, France. She currently teaches at
Princeton.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Lisa Siedlarz's</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> debut poet collection, <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I Dream My Brother Plays Baseball</span></em>,
was published in 2009 by Clemson University Digital Press. Lisa holds a Masters
in Fine Arts from Western Connecticut State University. She is the editor of <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Connecticut River Review</span></em>
and managing editor of <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Connecticut
Review</span></em>. She has won the John Holmes Poetry Prize and the Leo <span
class=blsp-spelling-error>Connellan</span> Award and was nominated for the 2009
Best New Poets Award. She also facilitated a 16-week writing workshop with
Vietnam veterans and edited a collection of their work called <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Season of Now</span></em>. Lisa
works for Southern Connecticut State University and lives in New Haven.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>************************</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Our spring line-up includes readings by poets, novelists, and
non-fiction writers. We welcome drinkers and teetotalers alike and hope you can
join us for what the New Haven Independent called "one of those unofficial
civic ventures that make New Haven such a vibrant place." </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Check out previous and future reading dates, read writers'
biographies, send us an email, and more at <a
href="http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com</span></a>.
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