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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="underline">10</span><span class="caps">AM</span><span class="underline"> – 5:15</span><span class="caps">PM</span><span class="underline"> Sunday, February 26, 2012
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<h1>Poetry and Mysticism, a symposium <o:p></o:p></h1>
<h2><span class="caps">ARFFA</span> Conference <o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://business.yale.edu/map/#search:BM" target="map" title="View on map"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bingham Hall, Comparative Literature Library 8th Floor, 300 College St., New Haven, CT, 06511
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">10:00–10:15</span></strong> Opening Remarks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>10:15–11:15</strong> East Meets Near-East, Divine Transmutations<br>
Michael Sells, University of Chicago<br>
“Mysticism in the Folds of Verse: (pre)Islamic, Islamic, Arabic, and Persian”<br>
David Shulman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem<br>
“God as Eavesdropper: Introspective Poems by Nammalvar and Annamacarya”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>11:30–12:30</strong> Those Feet in Ancient Times: Kabbalah, Blake,and Mystical Verse in English<br>
Peter Cole, Yale University (visiting)<br>
“The Poetry of Kabbalah”<br>
Geoffrey Hartman, Yale University (Emeritus)<br>
“William Blake: A Mystic?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>1:30–2:30</strong> Apparitions/Disapparitions<br>
Richard Sieburth, New York University<br>
“Scève/Semele”<br>
Rosanna Warren, Boston University<br>
“Max Jacob: Mysticism and Radical French Poetics”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>2:45–3:45</strong> The Numinous Now: Contemporary Poetry and Mystical Inquiry<br>
Fanny Howe, Georgetown University<br>
“Mystics of the Horizontal”<br>
Langdon Hammer, Yale University<br>
“James Merrill’s Voice from the Other World”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>3:45–4:45</strong> Poetry Reading, all panelists<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>4:45–5:15</strong> Closing Reception <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="label">Open to:</span> General public <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="label">Admission:</span> Free <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="label">Sponsor:</span> This event was made possible by the Stanley H. Arffa Fund Sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies, Yale University
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="label">Contact Information:</span> <a href="mailto:renee.reed@yale.edu">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">renee.reed@yale.edu</span></a>, 203-432-0843
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;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.
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Poetry at Beinecke Library:
<a href="https://connect.yale.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=6bef91e5794d4f25ac0a71614e19477a&URL=http%3a%2f%2fbeineckepoetry.wordpress.com%2f" target="_blank">
http://beineckepoetry.library.yale.edu/<br>
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