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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7E0000">THE POETRY INSTITUTE – NEW HAVEN</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> Featuring Ken Cormier</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> December 20, 2012</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Poetry for reindeer and elves!!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">may read poems, perform an exorcism, or sing karaoke – one never knows!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">may read poems that include rhymes for both “sugar plums” and “Quinnipiac”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">teaches Queative Writing at QU</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The Institute Library<br>
847 Chapel Street<br>
New Haven, CT</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">right next door to the</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0"> <b>Tattoo</b> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Parlor</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Doors Open at 6:30. Reading starts at 7:00.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Please arrive a few minutes early to sign up for the reading.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7E0000"> <b>Great Poetry! </b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7E0000"> In a Warm, Friendly Environment</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><a href="http://thepoetryinstitute.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC">http://thepoetryinstitute.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="mailto:poetryinstitute@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC">poetryinstitute@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></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: Poetry at Beinecke Library:
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http://beineckepoetry.library.yale.edu/<br>
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