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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The Grad Poets Reading Series returns for the Spring 2014 semester with two exciting readings. The first will take place next Thursday, February 6<sup>th</sup> at 7:00 pm in LC
317 (63 High St., New Haven). The poet Lucie Brock-Broido will be joining us, reading with grad students Kevin Holden (Comp Lit) and Brandon Menke (English).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Lucie Brock-Broido received her B.A. and her M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her most recent book <i>Stay, Illusion</i>, is a finalist
for the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry. Her previous collections of poetry include <i>Trouble in Mind </i>(Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), recipient of the Massachusetts Book Award; <i>The Master Letters</i> (1995); and <i>A Hunger </i>(1988). In 2008, she edited
and published <i>Letters to a</i> <i>Stranger</i>, <i>Poems</i> by Thomas James with Graywolf Press. Her awards and honors include the Witter-Bynner prize for poetry from the Academy of American Arts and Letters, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award,
the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2013, she was given the Presidential Award for Outstanding
Teaching.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">We’ll have copies of
<i>Stay, Illusion</i> available to purchase at the reading ($20, cash/check only).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Our next reading will take place much later this spring, when Paige Ackerson-Kiely joins us on April 24<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">For more information or, if you’re grad student, to read in the series, please contact Paul Franz (<a href="mailto:paul.franz@yale.edu">paul.franz@yale.edu</a>) or Justin Sider
(<a href="mailto:justin.sider@yale.edu">justin.sider@yale.edu</a>). You can find our event page here:
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/263932707102395/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming">
https://www.facebook.com/events/263932707102395/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming</a>. And our group page here:
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/YGPRS/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/YGPRS/</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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