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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Ordinary Evening
Reading Series Presents </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Mark Wunderlich and
Paul Beckman</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>at the Anchor Bar,
New Haven</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Tuesday, November
16, 7 PM</span></b><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"'>We’re
giving thanks for an excellent year of writers and listeners with poet Mark
Wunderlich and short story writer Paul Beckman on <b>Tuesday, November 16th, in
the Anchor Bar’s Mermaid Room</b>, 272 College Street in New Haven.</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"'> </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-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Belle Rose Fragment</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-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:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Tell me the story about alligator hunting.</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-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:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The one when your father took you.</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-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The one when he was scared.</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-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:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The water was high.
I remember that.</span></i><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;text-indent:.5in'><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>And the snakes were
nesting. Anywhere on high ground.</span></i><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;text-indent:.5in'><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>There were mounds
on them, twined together. </span></i><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;text-indent:.5in'><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>It was cold and
they were slow, but there were hundreds.</span></i><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;text-indent:.5in'><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>He put me up on his
shoulders.</span></i><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;text-indent:.5in'><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>He told me to be
very still.</span></i><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-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:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Then what happened?</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-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:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
<i>I don't remember.</i></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-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
by Mark Wunderlich</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-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:.5in;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:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Hold that thought, Sarah said just before
running out of the living room. Five minutes later I walked around my apartment
looking for her and she was gone no note, no nothing only an open front door.</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-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:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Two nights later she shows up at dinner
time with Chinese take out and says, Continue.</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-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:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Thats what she says -- Continue--nothing
else no explanation, no apology, no nothing.</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-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:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Did you bring spare ribs? I ask her.</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-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:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Yes, but that's not what you were saying.
Please continue what you were saying.</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-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:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>- from “Chinese Take Out” by Paul Beckman</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <br>
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<strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Mark Wunderlich</span></strong>
is the author of <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
Anchorage</span></em>, which received the Lambda Literary Award, and <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Voluntary Servitude</span></em>,
which was published by Graywolf Press in 2004. He is the recipient of
fellowships from the NEA, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Wallace
Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford, the Fine Arts Work Center in
Provincetown, and the Amy Lowell Trust. Individual poems have appeared in such
journals as <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Poetry</span></em>,
<em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Paris Review</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Slate</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Boston Review</span></em> and <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Yale Review</span></em> and his work
has been widely anthologized. He has taught in the graduate writing programs at
Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence, Ohio University and San Francisco State
University, and currently teaches literature and writing at Bennington College
in Vermont. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley.</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><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Paul
Beckman</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
is a real estate salesman, writer, snorkeler, traveler and photographer. His
most recent collection is the chapbook <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Maybe
I Should Sit Quietly In A Dark Room For A While</span></em>, published by
Silkworms Ink. His earlier collection <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Come!
Meet the Family and Other Stories</span></em> was published by Weighted Anchor
Press. Paul specializes in the short story, flash fiction and micro stories.
His work has appeared in a large number of journals including <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Connecticut Review</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The New Haven Review</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Onthebus</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Playboy</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>5 Trope</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Exquisite Corpse</span></em>, and <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Opium</span></em>. Three of his
six-word stories about New York City were selected as winners in the
competition sponsored by the 92 Street Y. Paul holds an MFA from the Bennington
Writing Seminars and lives with his wife in Madison, Connecticut.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Our
next reading is December 14th!</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> We’ll be enjoying poetry by Cynthia Zarin
and prose by Phillip Lopate.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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The 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 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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