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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 Charles Rafferty</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> March 21, 2013</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> Spring forward for Poetry!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">has been known to lend poetry, but he has not given up poetry for Lent
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">may ride in on a lion and out on a lamb</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">will not be dressed as a leprechaun (but he may have one in his pocket!)</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"> </span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0">Tattoo</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0"> </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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<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7E0000">come early/stop by downstairs and have a shamrock and a prayer for spring indelibly inked onto a provocative space</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Free and open to members of the public (and others)<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:
<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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