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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>The Ordinary
Evening Reading Series presents</b><br>
<b>Caryl Phillips and Matt Debenham</b><br>
<b>Tuesday September 21, 7 PM</b><br>
<b>at the Anchor Bar & Restaurant, New Haven CT</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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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.<br>
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"'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.”<br>
— In The Falling Snow, by Caryl Phillips<br>
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"’Try not to think of the bees as stinging you,’ I tell my
son. ‘Think of them as snuffling. Like a dog would do!’<br>
'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.<br>
'Okay, well, to them you're a giant flower,' I say. 'You
like flowers, right? Pretend that.'<br>
'I won't!' he yells. 'It hurts!'<br>
— "Beard of Bees," in The Book of Right and Wrong by Matt Debenham<br>
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<b>Caryl Phillips</b> 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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Matt Debenham</b>'s 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, The Pinch, Weston
Magazine, Dogwood, 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>.<br>
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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."<br clear=all>
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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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