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<p class=MsoNormal><b>Poetry Reading by James Longenbach<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Thursday April 1, 7pm<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Linsly-Chittenden Rm. 319, 63 High St, New Haven<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Free and Open to the Public<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Contact: Yale English Department, (203) 432-2233<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>James Longenbach, Gilmore Professor of English at the
University of Rochester, and a distinguished poet and critic, will give a
lecture and a poetry reading this coming Thursday, April 1, at Yale Univeristy.
Longenbach is the author of four books of poems, including /Fleet River/,
/Draft of a Letter/, and /Threshold/, as well as critical books on Pound, Eliot,
Yeats, and Stevens, an overview of twentieth-century American poetry called
/Modern Poetry After Modernism/, and two books of poetics (/The Resistance to
Poetry/ and /The Art of the Poetic Line/). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>Longenbach’s lecture, entitled "The Art of
Writing Badly," is sponsored by the Twentieth-/Twenty-First Century
Colloquium in the English Department. It will be held in LC 319 at 4pm; his
reading, introduced by Louise Gluck, will follow in LC 317 at 7. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Both events are free and open to the public.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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"><span
style='color:blue'>nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></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"><span style='color:blue'>https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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