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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#7E0000">THE POETRY INSTITUTE &#8211; NEW HAVEN</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#7E0000">
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#7E0000">Third Thursday Reading and Open Mic</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">featuring </span>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">&nbsp;Michael Grabell</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">&nbsp;Thursday, January 16, 201</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">4</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-weight:normal">&nbsp;</span></strong>Michael Grabell is an award-winning poet, whose first chapbook,
<i>Macho Man</i>, won the Finishing Line Press chapbook competition in 2013 and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His&nbsp;poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry anthology, Best New Poets 2009, Southwest Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Alehouse, Rattle,
 and the Sow&#8217;s Ear Poetry Review.&nbsp; His poetry has won a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize and was runner-up in the River Styx International Poetry Contest.&nbsp; He has also served as a mentor in the MFA program at Western Connecticut State University.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Grabell is an investigative reporter for ProPublica.&nbsp; His investigative work has included stories on temp agencies, President Obama&#8217;s economic stimulus package, the TSA&#8217;s body scanners,
 the Federal Air Marshal Service, the Lance Armstrong doping allegations, chemicals stored near schools and neighborhoods, and a bus fire that killed 23 nursing home patients fleeing Hurricane Rita.&nbsp; At ProPublica, his work has appeared in The New York Times,
 Time,<i> </i>and<i>&nbsp;</i>USA Today and on NPR, PBS NewsHour,&nbsp;and the CBS Evening News.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#222222">On the third Thursday of each month, The Poetry Institute Poetry Series celebrates an eclectic mix of poetic voices.&nbsp; Free.&nbsp; Refreshments.&nbsp; (</span><span style="color:#C0504D">And
 if you want to bring something to share, that&#8217;s good, too.)&nbsp; </span><span style="color:#222222">Open mic.&nbsp; Outstanding featured readers.&nbsp; In a casual setting.&nbsp;&nbsp; Open to all (even poets).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#222222">The Institute Library<br>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;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:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#7E0000">&nbsp;<b>Great Poetry!&nbsp;&nbsp;</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#7E0000">&nbsp;In a Warm, Friendly Environment</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#7E0000">&nbsp;</span></b><a href="http://thepoetryinstitute.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;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:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;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:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;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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