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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Grad Poets Reading Series: Lisa Robertson </span></b>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The next reading in the Yale Grad Poets Reading Series is this Thursday; Lisa Robertson will join us in New Haven on <b>Thursday, February 28th at 7:00
pm in LC 317</b>. She'll be joined at the mic by grad student poets Josh Stanley and Kevin Holden. More information is available here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/YGPRS/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">http://www.facebook.com/groups/YGPRS/</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Lisa will also be joining the Working Group in Contemporary Poetics on Friday March 1 (from 3PM-5PM in room B04 of the Whitney Humanities Center) for a
conversation about her poetry and poetics.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Lisa Robertson's books of poetry include XECLOGUE, DEBBIE: AN EPIC (nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1998), THE WEATHER (winner
of the Relit Award for Poetry in 2002), THE MEN and LISA ROBERTSON'S MAGENTA SOUL WHIP. University of California Press published Rousseau's Boat in Spring 2010. Lisa Robertson lives in the Vienne region of France. Her most recent book is the essay collection
NILLING: PROSE from BookThug.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Books will be sold at the reading, cash or check only ($15).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">If you're interested in learning a bit more about her, here's a
link to a brief bio: </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lisa-robertson" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1155CC">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lisa-robertson</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">;
and here's a wonderful interview with Robertson by poet and scholar Julie Carr: </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><a href="http://www.eveningwillcome.com/issue25-jcarr-p1.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1155CC">http://www.eveningwillcome.com/issue25-jcarr-p1.html</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">.</span>
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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:
<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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