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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div><p><strong>The Graduate Poets’ Reading Series presents: Christian Hawkey</strong><o:p></o:p></p><p>7:00 pm, Thursday, February 10th<br>Linsly-Chittenden, Room 317<br>63 High St., New Haven, CT<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/28" target="_blank"><span style='color:#003399'>Christian Hawkey</span></a> </strong>is the author of <em>Petitions for an Alien Relative</em> (a chapbook by hand held editions, 2010), <em>Ventrakl </em>(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Christian-Hawkey/dp/1933517166/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282745125&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><em><span style='color:#003399'>Citizen Of</span></em></a> (Wave Books, 2007), <em>Hour, Hour</em>, a chapbook which includes drawings by the artist Ryan Mrowzowski (Delirium Press, 2006), and <em>The Book of Funnels</em> (Verse Press, 2004), winner of the 2006 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. In 2006 he was given a Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award and he has also received awards from the Poetry Fund and the Academy of American Poets. He teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Books will be sold at the reading, Cash or Check Only. For more information, please email Justin Sider (<a href="mailto:justin.sider@yale.edu">justin.sider@yale.edu</a>) or Sarah Stone (<a href="mailto:sarah.stone@yale.edu">sarah.stone@yale.edu</a>)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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><br>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></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>