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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>Ordinary Evening Reading Series Presents</span></b><span
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<b>Sheila Kohler and Lisa Siedlarz</b><br>
<b>at the Anchor Bar, New Haven</b><br>
<b>Tuesday, January 19th, 7 PM</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Start fulfilling your New Year’s resolution to have more literary fun by
joining us for the celebrated novelist Sheila Kohler and the prize-winning poet
Lisa Siedlarz at 7PM on Tuesday, January 19th, in the Anchor Bar’s Mermaid
Room, 272 College Street in New Haven.<br>
<br>
“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.”<br>
from <i>Becoming
Jane Eyre</i> by Sheila Kohler<br>
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<br>
“Saying goodbye was like wrapping my arms<br>
around these five foot swells<br>
that crest and break where land rises as sharply<br>
as the C-130s carrying you westward to Afghanistan.<br>
The sea heaves wall after wall of water,<br>
carrying sunlight across its curves before folding<br>
in on itself, hiding the sparkle in an undertow.”<br>
from<i> I
Dream My Brother Plays Baseball</i> by Lisa Siedlarz<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>Sheila Kohler</b>’s most recent novel, <i>Becoming Jane Eyre</i>, has just
been published by Viking, Penguin and was enthusiastically reviewed in the <i>New
York Times</i>. She has written six other novels: <i>The Perfect Place </i>(1989)
; <i>The House on R Street </i>(1994); <i>Cracks</i> (1999); <i>Children of
Pithiviers</i> (2001); <i>Crossways</i> (2004); and <i>Bluebird or the
Invention of Happiness</i> (2007); and three collections of short stories:<i>
Miracles in America</i> (1990); <i>One Girl </i>(1999); and <i>Stories from
Another World</i> (2003).<br>
<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. Cullman Center for
Scholars and Writers.<br>
<br>
An acclaimed instructor, Sheila has taught creative writing in many programs
including the Bennington Writing Seminars, the West Side YMCA, and Columbia's
program in Montolieu, France. She currently teaches at Princeton.<br>
<b> <br>
Lisa Siedlarz</b>'s debut poet collection, <i>I Dream My Brother Plays Baseball</i>,
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 <i>Connecticut
River Review </i>and managing editor of <i>Connecticut Review</i>. She has won
the John Holmes Poetry Prize and the Leo Connellan 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 The Season
of Now. Lisa works for Southern Connecticut State University and lives in New
Haven.<br>
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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>
<br>
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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