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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><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 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Ordinary Evening Reading Series Presents</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Gail Mazur and Eleanor Lerman, 4/26 at 7pm – Anchor Bar</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Pop the champagne, catch the A train and join Ordinary Evening to celebrate readings by two acclaimed poets, Gail Mazur and Eleanor Lerman, on <b>Tuesday April 26</b> at <b>7PM</b> in the <b>Anchor Bar’s Mermaid Room</b>, 272 College Street in New Haven. This is a breath-taking way to delight in Poetry Month and springtime!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Everyone’s here in the pictures, nobody appears</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>what you’d call pleased—my stunned father looks sweet,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>your mother, gowned in scarlet lace décolletage,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>loathes us all and won’t stop smiling. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>I seem bride-ish,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>blank, I’ve rehearsed the whole thing. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>No one’s going</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>to shout</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Stop!</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>when the rabbi in the name</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>of the Commonwealth invites the congregation</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>to object to our union. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>It turns out this is</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>it</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>we’re both quaking, our hands vibrating, both thinking,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>This is a terrible mistake,</span></i><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>thinking,</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>I bet we’ll pay</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>for this later.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.75in;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>--From “Wedding Album,” by Gail Mazur</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.75in;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><br><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:1.0in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> ...Last night,<br>when I got on the subway, I jostled a woman holding<br>a copy of X. When she complained, instead of<br>hitting her with my shoe, which would have<br>once been my modus operandi, I heard myself<br>suggest that somebody reading such an interesting<br>book could have been expected to be a little more<br>philosophical about things that happen on a<br>rainy night in a crowded city.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>-- From "A Rainy Night in a Crowded City," by Eleanor Lerman </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Gail Mazur</span></strong><span style='color:black'>’s poems celebrate the din and detail of ordinary life. Her sixth collection of poems, <i>Figures in a Landscape,</i> has just been published by University of Chicago Press. </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Zeppo’s First Wife: New and Selected Poems</span></em><span style='color:black'>, published in 2005, won the Massachusetts Book Award, and her 2001 volume </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>They Can’t Take That Away from Me,</span></em><span style='color:black'> was a finalist for the National Book Award. Gail published her first collection, </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Nightfire,</span></em><span style='color:black'> in 1978 and followed that with </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The Pose of Happiness </span></em><span style='color:black'>(1986). <br><br>A graduate of Smith College, Gail has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. Active in the Boston and Cambridge literary communities, she has served as the founding director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Center, and as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emerson College</span><span style='color:#29303B'>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#29303B'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Eleanor Lerman</span></strong><span style='color:black'>'s most recent collection of poems, </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The Sensual World Re-Emerges,</span></em><span style='color:black'> was published by Sarabande Press in 2010. It has been nominated for three awards: ForeWord's Book of the Year (poetry), The Audre Lorde Poetry Award from the Publishing Triangle, and the Lambda Literary Award (poetry). Her collection of short stories</span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>, The Blonde on the Train</span></em><span style='color:black'> (Mayapple Press), came out in 2009. <br><br>Eleanor's first book of poetry, </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Armed Love</span></em><span style='color:black'> (Wesleyan University Press), was published in 1973 when she was twenty-one and was nominated for a National Book Award. While Eleanor quickly became known as an exciting young poet with a direct, new voice, she also faced criticism for her explicit depiction of then-shocking subject matter. One more collection, </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Come the Sweet By and By</span></em><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-style:normal'>,</span></em><i><span style='color:black'> </span></i><span style='color:black'>followed in 1975, and then, partly in response to the backlash against her first book, she did not write another book of poems until 2001, when </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The Mystery of Meteors </span></em><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-style:normal'>was published</span></em><span style='color:black'>. This was followed by </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds</span></em><span style='color:black'> (2005), which received the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets for the year's most outstanding book of poetry. <br><br>Raised in the Bronx and Far Rockaway, Eleanor has lived in New York City all her life.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#29303B'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%'>ABOUT THE ORDINARY EVENING SERIES </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%'>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 <i>New Haven Independent</i> called "one of those unofficial civic ventures that make New Haven such a vibrant place." </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%'>Read writers' biographies, find links to more writing, send us an email, and more at </span><a href="https://email.hbs.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=090e06d980144c219acb648d075147f2&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com%2f" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;color:#2951A6'>http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%'>. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><br><br><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><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>-- <br><a href="http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/">http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/</a><br>To unsubscribe from this mailing, simply reply with the word REMOVE in the subject line.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>