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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Charles Douthat�s</span></u></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> first book
of poems, �Blue for Oceans,� won the L.L. Winship/Pen New England Award as the best book of poetry published in 2010 by a New England writer. His poems have appeared online in Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and in many magazines and journals. Three poems from
�Blue for Oceans� were featured on Garrison Keillor�s �Writers Almanac.� Charles graduated from Stanford University in 1972. He practices law and works in New Haven, Connecticut. Learn more at
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Christina O�Connor</span></u></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">, a member
of the Yale Working Group in Contemporary Poetics, Christina is an eclectic writer of jazz-based lyric song.</span><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Katie Yates</span></u></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> is a mother and Adjunct Professor at St. John's University, Queens. Her book
poem for the house (Stockport Flats, 2011) acknowledges "I have lived in many houses. The first a house in Algeria (with Great Danes, a trip to Madrid where I was born. The second in Malawi..."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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
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<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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