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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='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='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Poets from Poets
>From the Anthology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Visiting Wallace:
Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Wallace Stevens</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='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='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Tuesday, February
16th, 7 PM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Join
us <b>7PM on Tuesday, February 16th, in the Anchor Bar’s Mermaid Room</b>, 272
College Street in New Haven, for poems inspired by Wallace Stevens and selected
from the new anthology <i>Visiting Wallace: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work
of Wallace Stevens</i> (University of Iowa, 2009).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><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:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Suppose these houses are composed of
ourselves,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>So that they become an impalpable town,
full of</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Impalpable bells, transparencies of sound.
. . .</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:1.0in;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:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>- from “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven”
by Wallace Stevens</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-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Dennis
Barone’s</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
recent books are <i>Precise Machine</i> and <i>North Arrow</i> both from Quale
Press. In 2006 he edited <i>Furnished Rooms</i> (Bordighera Press), poems by
early twentieth-century poet Emanuel Carnevali. He has published a
selected poems, <i>Separate Objects</i> (Left Hand Books, 1998), and in 1997 he
received the America Award in fiction for <i>Echoes.</i> He is Director of
American Studies at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Richard
Deming</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
is a poet and a theorist who works on the philosophy of literature. His poems
have appeared in such places as <i>Sulfur, Field, Indiana Review, and Mandorla,</i>
as well as <i>Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present</i>. His book
of poems is <i>Let’s Not Call It Consequence</i> (Shearsman), With Nancy Kuhl,
he edits Phylum Press. He is a lecturer at Yale University and the author of <i>Listening
on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading</i> (Stanford). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>James
Finnegan</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
has published poems in <i>Ploughshares, Poetry East, The Southern Review, The
Virginia Quarterly Review</i> & other literary magazines. He started an
internet discussion list related to contemporary poetry called New-Poetry. He
cofounded the web-radio project LitStation.com and he posts aphoristic musings
to <i>ursprache</i>, a poetics blog. He lives in West Hartford, CT, and works
as an insurance underwriter of financial institutions risk.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Susan
Howe</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
is the author of several books including <i>Souls of the Labadie Tract</i> (New
Directions, 2007), <i>The Midnight</i> (2003), <i>Kidnapped</i> (2002), <i>The
Europe of Trusts: Selected Poems</i> (2002), <i>Peirce-Arrow</i> (1999), <i>Frame
Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979 </i>(1996). Her books of criticism are <i>The
Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History </i>(1993),
which was named an "International Book of the Year" by the Times
Literary Supplement, and <i>My Emily Dickinson</i> (1985).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Clare
Rossini’s</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
second collection,<i> Lingo</i>, was released from the University of Akron
Press in 2006. Her first full-length collection, <i>Winter Morning with Crow</i>,
was selected for the 1996 Akron Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in
numerous journals, as well as in textbooks and anthologies, including <i>Poets
for the New Century</i>, <i>An Introduction to Poetry</i> and <i>Best American
Poetry. </i>Rossini is currently on the faculty of Trinity College in Hartford
and the MFA program at Vermont College in Montpelier, VT.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Next
reading is March 23!</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
We welcome novelist Susan Barr-Toman, author of <i>When Love Was Clean
Underwear</i>, and Boston <i>Globe</i> “Miss Conduct” etiquette columnist Robin
Abrahams. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>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>
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<p class=MsoNormal><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/"><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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