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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The final Grad Poets Reading Series event of the year is here: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Geoffrey G. O’Brien<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thursday, April 19th<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Linsly-Chittenden 317,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Geoffrey G. O’Brien is the author of three collections of poetry <em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Guns and Flags Project</span></em> (2002), <em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Green
and Gray</span></em> (2007), and <em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Metropole</span></em> (2011), all published by U.C. Press. Educated at Harvard University and the University of Iowa, O’Brien has taught at Brooklyn College, The University
of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been the Distinguished Poet in Residence at St. Mary’s College of California and the Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently teaches. He also teaches in the
Prison University Project at San Quentin.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Books will be available for purchase ($22 cash/check).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For more information, please contact Sarah Stone (<a href="mailto:sarah.stone@yale.edu">sarah.stone@yale.edu</a>) or Justin Sider (<a href="mailto:justin.sider@yale.edu">justin.sider@yale.edu</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;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.
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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";color:#1F497D">Poetry at Beinecke Library:
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