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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Ordinary Evening
Reading Series Presents </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Cynthia Zarin and
Phillip Lopate</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>at the Anchor Bar,
New Haven</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Tuesday, December
14, 7 PM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>We’re
ringing out 2010 on a high note with readings from poet Cynthia Zarin and
writer of fiction, essays and poetry Phillip Lopate on <b>Tuesday, December
14th, in the Anchor Bar’s Mermaid Room</b>, 272 College Street in New Haven.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>“Like hearts marked out but not yet colored
in, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Each of her feathers has a black
edge, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>as if an India-ink mantilla stretched</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>from uncleaved neck to her fantail. The
pen, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>homemade, spilled some darkness now and
then. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>She doesn’t lack for suitors....”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>- from “The Astronomical Hen” by Cynthia
Zarin</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>"Say I am getting tired of working on
a particular essay, which I had thought would take only a day and is now
stretching into its second or third week; meanwhile the material, the flattened
clay or beaten metal. . . is thinning under my hands. At the same time, I
see a possible solution, an intriguing glimmer in the distance that could,
optimistically, function as an ending. The fact that it does not resolve
the problems that the piece has raised, but, instead, slips out of their grasp,
makes a whacky diagonal run away from them possibly all to the good.
Readers should be left with some things to work out on their own (or so I
tell myself). I have a liberating elation of having pulled off a fast
one. . . ."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><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:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>-
from "How Do You End An Essay?" by Phillip Lopate<br>
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</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Phillip
Lopate</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943, and received a BA from Columbia in
1964, and a doctorate from the Union Graduate School in 1979. The most recent
of his many books is <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>At
the End of the Day</span></em>, a collection of his selected poems published in
2010. He has written prolifically in many genres: personal essay, novel,
poetry, memoir, criticism, and biography, in addition to editing a number of
anthologies. His essays, fiction, poetry, film and architectural criticism have
appeared in <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Best
American Short Stories</span></em>, <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
Best American Essays </span></em>, several Pushcart Prize annuals, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Paris Review</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Harper's, Vogue, Esquire, Film
Comment, Threepenny Review, Double Take, New York Times, Harvard Educational
Review, Preservation, Cite, 7 Days, Metropolis, Conde Nast Traveler</span></em>,
and many other periodicals and anthologies. <br>
<br>
Among Phillip's many awards are a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York
Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National
Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants.
<br>
<br>
After working with children for twelve years as a writer in the schools, he
taught creative writing and literature at Fordham, Cooper Union, University of
Houston, and New York University. He currently holds the John Cranford Adams
Chair at Hofstra University, and also teaches in the MFA graduate programs at
Columbia, the New School and Bennington.<br>
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<strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Cynthia Zarin</span></strong><strong><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'> </span></strong>'s
newest poetry collection is <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
Ada Poems</span></em>, published in September. She has written three other
books of poetry—<em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
Watercourse</span></em>, <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Fire
Lyric</span></em>, and <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
Swordfish Tooth</span></em>—and five books for children. Born in New York City
and educated at Harvard and Columbia, Cynthia is a longtime contributor to <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The New Yorker</span></em>. Her
recent articles include “An Enlarged Heart,” an autobiographical essay on a
child’s sudden illness, which was selected for the 2004 “Best American Essays,”
and “Big Cheese,” about the reincarnation of Murray’s Cheese Shop, in Greenwich
Village, which appeared in “Best Food Writing,” in 2005. Cynthia's Profiles
include “Not Nice: Maurice Sendak and the Perils of Childhood,” which won a
2006 Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York, and “Seeing
Things: The Art of Olafur Eliasson.” “Green Dreams: A Queen, A Shipwreck, and
the Mystery Behind a Rare Set of Jewels” won the 2006 Richard T. Liddicoat
Award for Consumer National Reporting. She has also written for <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>the New York Times</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Architectural Digest</span></em>,
and <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Gourmet</span></em>,
where she is a contributing editor. <br>
<br>
The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the
Ingram Merrill Foundation, and winner of the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets
Award and the <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Los Angeles
Times</span></em> Book Prize, Cynthia teaches at Yale and lives in New York
City.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Our
spring 2011 season begins January 18th!</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> We’ll be enjoying a night of great science
writing by Carl Zimmer and Annie Murphy Paul.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><br>
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>
<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"'>Check
out previous and future reading dates, read writers' biographies, send us an
email, and more at <a href="http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/"><span
style='color:#2951A6'>http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com</span></a>. </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. <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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