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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">This coming Thursday and Friday, we will be visited by two extraordinary poet-critics, Geoffrey G. O'Brien and Keston Sutherland. Please join us for a series
of discussions on their recent work, and to hear them read from it. You'll find </span>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">e</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">vent information below</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">;
contact <a href="mailto:david.gorin@yale.edu">david.gorin@yale.edu</a> for copies of the readings.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">Keston Sutherland at the Working Group on Contemporary Cultures</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">Thursday, September 19th, 5:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">Green Hall, 1156 Chapel St<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">Room G32 (in the basement)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">Geoffrey G. O'Brien at the Working Group on Contemporary Poetics</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">Friday, September 20th, 3:00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">Room 116<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">Geoffrey G. O'Brien and Keston Sutherland poetry reading</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">co-hosted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/110601392436162/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">WAVEMACHINE</span></a> and the <a href="http://english.commons.yale.edu/graduate_poets/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Graduate
Poets' Reading Series</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">Friday, September 20th, 8 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">The People's Arts Collective<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">212 College St<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">join the reading on Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/392824944176714/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">here</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">The Working Group on Contemporary Cultures will host Keston Sutherland for a discussion of his latest work, <i>The Odes to TL61P—</i>alongside a newly-translated
passage from Adorno's <i>Minima Moralia</i>, Silvia Federici's short essay "Why sexuality is work," and two short essays Keston has written on the poetry of John Weiners and the spirit of revolution in the letters of Rosa Luxemburg respectively. A PDF with
the readings (minus the Adorno, which is still forthcoming) and two interviews is</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> available from david.gorin@yale.edu.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">The Working Group on Contemporary Poetics will host Geoffrey G. O'Brien for a discussion of his latest work, <i>People on Sunday</i>.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">A</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222"> PDF of poems from the book that Geoffrey has encouraged us to read, along with a
recent interview are</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> available from david.gorin@yale.edu.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">On Friday evening, the two poets will read their work at an event hosted jointly by the Graduate Poets Reading Series, the WAVEMACHINE poetry series, and the
People's Arts Collective of New Haven.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">We hope you can join us for these events.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">David Gorin, Josh Stanley, Justin Sider, Paul Franz, Caleb Smith, Richard Deming, and Kenneth Reveiz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333">GEOFFREY G. O'BRIEN is the author of Metropole (2011), Green and Gray (2007), and The Guns and Flags Project (2002), all from The University of California Press.
His most recent book, People on Sunday, was published this September by Wave Books. His chapbooks include Hesiod (Song Cave, 2010), and Poem with No Good Lines (Hand Held Editions, 2010). He is the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three
Poets: Ashbery, Donnelly, O’Brien (Minus A Press, 2012) and (in collaboration with the poet Jeff Clark) of 2A (Quemadura, 2006). O’Brien is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and also teaches for the Prison University Project at
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KESTON SUTHERLAND is the author of sixteen volumes of poetry, most recently The Odes to TL61P (Enitharmon, 2013), and a book of criticism, Stupifaction: a radical anatomy of phantoms (Seagull, 2011). Sutherland is a Professor of Poetics at the University of
Sussex, the editor of the poetics and critical theory journal QUID, and co-editor (with Andrea Brady) of Barque Press. He co-directs the Sussex Poetry Festival together with Sara Crangle and Daniel Kane. This year, he is visiting the University of California,
Berkeley as the Holloway Poetry Fellow.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;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: 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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