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<p class="MsoNormal">Yale Literature and Spirituality Series<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.yale.edu/ism/events/BradDavis.html">BOTH / AND</a>
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">an annotated poetry reading<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Brad Davis, poet </span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thursday, January 31 | 5:15 PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Marquand Chapel<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">(409 Prospect St., New Haven)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Lecture followed by reception and book-signing. Free; no tickets required. Plenty of free parking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Drawing from his early poems, recent books, and new work, the poet Brad Davis will trace a decades-long struggle with being an artist and a believer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Davis has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and several books, the most recent being
<i>Opening King David </i>(Wipf & Stock) and <i>Self Portrait w/ Disposable Camera.</i> His poems have appeared widely in such journals as
<i>Poetry, Paris Review, DoubleTake, Connecticut Review, Image, Michigan Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, The Café Review, Tar River Poetry, Ascent,
</i>and <i>Chautauqua. </i>Awards include an AWP Intro Journal Award and the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. Davis has taught creative writing and the College of the Holy Cross and Eastern Connecticut State University. As well, he served fifteen years as chaplain
of Pomfret School in Pomfret, CT, where he is now a school counselor, poetry writing teacher, and squash coach. He is editor of Hill-Stead Museum’s online poetry journal
<i>Theodate, </i>and their twentieth anniversary festival anthology, <i>Sunken Garden Poetry, 1992-2011
</i>(Wesleyan University Press).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cordially,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Melissa Maier</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Manager of Publications and External Relations</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yale Institute of Sacred Music</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.yale.edu/ism">www.yale.edu/ism</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:green">Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">p 203 / 432-3222</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">f 203 / 432-5296</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">m 409 Prospect St.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> New Haven CT 06511<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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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