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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;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:14.0pt;color:red'>Featuring Elizabeth Marie Liz Young</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt;color:red'>Thursday, January 21, 2010</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:red'> 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:red'>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:red'>Please arrive a few minutes early to sign up for the reading.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='color:red'>Please join us after the show at Fosters Restaurant.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='color:red'>The Institute Library</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='color:red'>847 Chapel Street</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='color:red'>New Haven, CT</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#231F20'>Elizabeth Marie Young is the
author of a Motherwell Prize winning volume of poetry, </span><i><span
style='color:black'>Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize. </span></i><span
style='color:#231F20'>She lived in New York for many years where she helped
edit the <i>Poetry Project Newsletter. </i> She also played music in several
experimental noise bands, DJ’d at WKCR-FM, taught high school. In 2004, she
curated Cabinet of the Muses, a Bay-Area inter-arts poetry festival. Liz
currently Latin, ancient Greek, and English poetry at Wellesley College. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#231F20'>Young’s work has been described
as “hilariously erudite prose poems [that]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#231F20'>are cosmologies—miniature,
ever-expanding universes . . . interactive environments, kaleidoscopic and
incorrigibly changeable, in which competing impulses toward cerebral austerity
and luxuriant beauty battle it out. She says that she “writes in the infidel
hope that writing itself can create worlds.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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">allwordofmouth@gmail.com</a> or <a
href="mailto:mcguireschwartz@gmail.com">mcguireschwartz@gmail.com</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Word of Mouth is an affiliate of Arts and Literature
Laboratory. Please visit the ALL website at <a href="http://allgallery.org">allgallery.org</a><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">wedpoetry.net</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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