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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Ordinary Evening
Reading Series Presents<br>
Poets from Poets From the Anthology<br>
Visiting Wallace: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Wallace Stevens<br>
at the Anchor Bar, New Haven<br>
Tuesday, February 16th, 7 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
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Join us 7PM on <b>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).<br>
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Suppose these houses are composed of ourselves,<br>
So that they become an impalpable town, full of<br>
Impalpable bells, transparencies of sound. . . .<br>
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- from “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” by Wallace Stevens<br>
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<b>Dennis Barone</b>’s 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 Echoes. He is Director of American Studies at Saint Joseph College in West
Hartford, Connecticut. <br>
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<b>Richard Deming</b> 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</i>, and <i>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).<br>
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<b>James Finnegan</b> 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 ursprache, a poetics blog. He lives in West
Hartford, CT, and works as an insurance underwriter of financial institutions
risk.<br>
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Susan Howe</b> 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</i> 1974-1979 (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 <i>Times Literary Supplement</i>, and <i>My Emily Dickinson</i>
(1985).<br>
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<b>Clare Rossini</b>’s 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, 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.<br>
<br>
<b>Next reading is March 23!</b> We welcome novelist Susan Barr-Toman, author
of <i>When Love Was Clean Underwea</i>r, and <i>Boston Glob</i>e “Miss Conduct”
etiquette columnist Robin Abrahams.<br>
<br>
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."<br>
<br>
Check out previous and future reading dates, read writers' biographies, send us
an email, and more at <a href="http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com">http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com</a>.<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>
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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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