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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><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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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7E0000">Third Thursday Open Mic</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Featuring Lonnie Black</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">September 19, 2013</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Lonnie Black was the driving force behind Northeast Magazine’s publication of poetry. He was a co-founder of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. Lonnie
is Poetry Director of Artworks Gallery, where he created the program of Three Connecticut Poets, which is now in its 22<sup>nd</sup> year. Lonnie has served as poet in the classroom on every level from elementary through post-secondary. Lonnie lectures and
conducts creative writing workshops/master classes throughout Connecticut. He says that he writes “to celebrate the poignancy of words and to draw attention to regular events shaping our lives.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">On the third Thursday of each month, The Poetry Institute Poetry Series celebrates an eclectic mix of poetic voices. Free. Refreshments. (</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C0504D">And
if you want to bring something to share, that’s good, too.) </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Open mic. Outstanding featured readers. In a casual setting. Open to all (even poets).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><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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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><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>
<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><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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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7E0000">Great Poetry! </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><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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<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="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library">http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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