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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 Brian Clements</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> April 18, 2013</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 Month & spring is finally here!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Brian</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">may – in celebration of poetry month – read verse prose instead of the prose poems that he often reads</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">will appear in person, even though he does not always do this for the classes that he teaches (in the low-residency mfa program that he runs)
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">may present an MFA degree to a lucky audience member</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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<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 likeness of TS Eliot and the entire annotated Waste Land indelibly inked onto a provocative space</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:6.0pt;color:#984806">or perhaps just the words <i> Wasteland is the cruelest tattoo</i></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)</span><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: </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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