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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>The Ordinary Evening
Reading Series presents </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>Caryl Phillips and Matt
Debenham</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>Tuesday September 21, 7
PM </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>at the Anchor Bar &
Restaurant, New Haven CT</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:#29303B;font-weight:normal'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:#29303B;font-weight:normal'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;font-weight:normal'>Fall into everything new—shoes, schools, and
schedules—with the Ordinary Evening Reading Series! Caryl Phillips and Matt
Debenham read at 7 PM on Tuesday September 21, in the Anchor Bar &
Restaurant’s Mermaid Room, 272 College St., in New Haven.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";
color:black'>"'I better go now before the buses stop running." His
father leaned over the threshold and hugged him, though the older man was
clearly somewhat uncomfortable with the gesture. Once his father released him
he stepped outside the house and into the snow, and he looked on as his father
gingerly picked his way down the path in search of some form of transportation
that might convey the snow-furred pilgrim back to wherever he lived. As he
walked, his father left behind a single set of footprints, and he remembered
lingering by the doorstep and watching closely as the falling snow steadily
erased all evidence of his father's presence.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> —
</span><i><span style='font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";
color:black'>In The Falling Snow</span></i><span style='font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";
color:black'>, by Caryl Phillips</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:27.0pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";color:black'> "’Try
not to think of the bees as stinging you,’ I tell my son. ‘Think of them as
snuffling. Like a dog would do!’</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:27.0pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";color:black'> 'But
it hurts,' says Jasper. His eyes still hold the last of his tears. The real
waterworks are only minutes gone, the boundless, shameless wailing of a
six-year-old.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:27.0pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";color:black'> 'Okay,
well, to them you're a giant flower,' I say. 'You like flowers, right?
Pretend that.'</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:27.0pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";color:black'> 'I
won't!' he yells. 'It hurts!'</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:27.0pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:2.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";color:black'>—
"Beard of Bees," in <i>The Book of Right and Wrong</i> by Matt
Debenham</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";
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color:black;font-weight:normal'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:15.6pt'><b><span
style='color:black'>Caryl Phillips</span></b><span style='color:black'> was
born in St.Kitts, West Indies, and brought up in Leeds. He is the author of
numerous books of non-fiction and fiction. <i>Dancing in the Dark</i> won the
2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and <i>A Distant Shore</i> won the 2004
Commonwealth Writers Prize. His other awards include the Martin Luther King
Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial
Prize for <i>Crossing the River</i>, which was also short-listed for the Booker
Prize. He has written extensively for the stage, television, and film, and is a
regular contributor to newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic.
He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of English at
Yale University, and currently lives in New York City.<br>
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<b>Matt Debenham's</b> story collection <i>The Book of Right and Wrong </i>(published
this year!) won the Ohio State University Press Prize for fiction and featured
the Pushcart Prize-nominated title story “The Book of Right and Wrong.” Matt
holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. His work has appeared in
numerous journals, including <i>Roanoke Review</i>, <i>The Pinch</i>, <i>Weston
Magazine</i>, <i>Dogwood</i>, <i>Painted Bride Quarterly</i>, and <i>North
Atlantic Review</i>. A resident of Westport CT, he teaches in the UCLA
Extension Writers' Program, writes a blog at <a
href="http://www.mattdebenham.com/blog/">http://www.mattdebenham.com/blog/</a>
and twitters at <a href="http://twitter.com/debenham">http://twitter.com/debenham</a>.
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>The Ordinary
Evening Reading Series schedule for Fall 2010 includes readings on October 19,
November 16, and December 14 by poets, novelists, and non-fiction writers. We
welcome drinkers and teetotalers alike and hope you can join us for what the
New Haven Independent 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: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.
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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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