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<span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#560000">A BENEFIT FOR THE INSTITUTE LIBRARY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#560000">&nbsp;&#8220;TWO ARTS&#8221;</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#131313">&nbsp;<b>Poetry Reading and Painting Exhibition<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#131313">Gray Jacobik and Charles Douthat<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#131313">May 3, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">You are invited to a benefit reading for New Haven&#8217;s Institute Library by two award-winning Connecticut poets who are also artists.&nbsp; A selection of their paintings will be exhibited at the Library on the evening
 of the reading.&nbsp; Gray and Charles will read in tandem on coordinated themes, creating an exciting four-part synergy of poetry and painting.&nbsp; A ten dollar donation is requested.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><a href="http://thepoetryinstitute.com/"><span style="color:#000089">The Institute Library</span></a></span><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#131313"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#131313">847 Chapel Street, Second Floor, New Haven, CT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#131313">Doors Open at 6:30.&nbsp;&nbsp;Reading starts at 7:00.&nbsp; Reception to follow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Charles Douthat&#8217;s</span></b><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">
<i>Blue for Oceans&nbsp; </i>won the L.L.Winship-Pen New England Award as the best book of poetry published by a New England writer in 2010.&nbsp;&nbsp; His poems have been featured on
<i>Poetry Daily, Verse Daily</i>, &amp; Garrison Keillor&#8217;s <i>Writer&#8217;s Almanac.&nbsp; </i>
Charles paints in acrylics, sometimes on recycled surfaces.&nbsp; Read more and see images of his paintings at
<a href="http://charlesdouthat.com/"><span style="color:#000089">charlesdouthat.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Gray Jacobik</span></b><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">&#8217;s books include
<i>The Double Task</i> (The Juniper Prize); <i>The Surface of Last Scattering</i>;
<i>Brave Disguises </i>(AWP Poetry Prize), &amp; <i>Little Boy Blue</i> (CavanKerry).&nbsp; She&#8217;s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts &amp; the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. To learn more about Gray&#8217;s work as a poet visit
<a href="http://grayjacobik.com/"><span style="color:#000089">grayjacobik.com</span></a>; to view her abstract and non-objective paintings, visit
<a href="http://grayjacobikartist.com/"><span style="color:#000089">grayjacobikartist.com</span></a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:windowtext">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
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