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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p><strong>Natasha Trethewey, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Thomas Sayers Ellis, Poetry Reading</strong><br>Thursday, March 31, 2011 5:30 PM<br>Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street<br><em>An Evening of Poetry at the Gallery</em><br>Contact: <a href="mailto:artgalleryinfo@yale.edu">artgalleryinfo@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p>A reading in conjunction with the Yale University Art Gallery’s current exhibition, <em>Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery.</em> The exhibition, a collaboration among a team of students from Yale and the University of Maryland, College Park, features works that address, question, and complicate the paradigms that have mapped meanings onto African American bodies throughout history. The 54 works selected for the exhibition, representing the Gallery’s commitment during the past decade to growing this area of the collection, include paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, drawings, and photographs.<o:p></o:p></p><p>The Beinecke Library is a co-sponsor of this event.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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"><span style='color:blue'>nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></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"><span style='color:blue'>https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>