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<p class="MsoNormal">--Susan Howe, “Fragment of the Wedding Dress of Sarah Pierpont Edwards”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please join us TODAY at 4 pm on the Beinecke Library mezzanine:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At this week’s Fellows’ Tea, Susan Howe, poet and recipient of the 2011 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, will give a gallery talk on a fragment of Sarah Pierpont Edwards’s wedding dress, the subject of her “Fragment of Sarah Pierpont
Edwards’s Wedding Dress,” in <i>Souls of the Labadie Tract </i>(New Direction Books, 2007). Both the dress fragment and Howe’s working notebook are on display in the current exhibition,
<i>By Hand: A Celebration of the Manuscript Collections of Yale’s Beinecke Library</i>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Upcoming talks in the Fellows’ Tea series include:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">April 22: <b>Nancy Kuhl</b> (Curator of Poetry, Yale Collection of American Literature) on Ernest “Hem” Hemingway’s postcards to Gertrude Stein<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">April 29: <b>George Miles</b> (William Robertson Coe Curator, Yale Collection of Western Americana) on the surveying notes and map from the Lewis & Clark expedition<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Join us on <a href="http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/fellowsteas">
Mondays at 4 pm</a> at the Beinecke Library for a gallery talk on an exhibition object, followed by tea and scones with the Beinecke Library curators and staff, visiting research fellows, and researchers. <o:p></o:p></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:
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http://beineckepoetry.library.yale.edu/<br>
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