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<pre style="background:white"><tt><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Wednesday, October 5, 6:00 PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The University of Hartford’s Cardin Reading Series: EDWARD HIRSCH<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
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<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Edward Hirsch is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (2010), and the national bestseller How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry. He is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, fellow of the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations, and the National Endowment for the Arts, recipient of an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, an Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. He is currently President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. This event is Free and Open to the Public. Contact Benjamin Grossberg: <a href="mailto:Grossberg@Hartford.edu">Grossberg@Hartford.edu</a> / 860-768-4944<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Wednesday October 5, 7:00 PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Celebrate National Italian Heritage Month<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The Second Floor Reception Room, Bruyette Athenaeum Saint Joseph College, West Hartford<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Book Launch for
<i>New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of Italian-American Poetry </i>Gian Lombardo, Maria Sassi, David Cappella, Christine Casson, P. H. Liotta,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Clare Rossini, Dennis Barone, Stephen Campiglio, Michael Palma, Peter Gizzi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The Three Laureates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Noah Webster House, S. Main Street, West Hartford<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">A reading by Dennis Barone (West Hartford’s second poet laureate) and James Finnegan (West Hartford’s third and current poet laureate) hosted by Maria Sassi (West
Hartford’s first poet laureate). Barone and Finnegan recently co-edited the anthology
<i>Visiting Wallace: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Wallace Stevens</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;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"><span style="color:blue">nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted.
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Poetry at Beinecke Library:
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