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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:28.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Goudy Old Style","serif";color:#C00000">The Invention of Influence<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Goudy Old Style","serif";color:black">The Invention of
<i>The Invention of Influence</i> </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Goudy Old Style","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Goudy Old Style","serif";color:black">A Reading and Conversation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Goudy Old Style","serif"">February 26, 7 p.m.</span><span style="font-family:"Goudy Old Style","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://ndbooks.com/book/the-invention-of-influence"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Goudy Old Style","serif"">http://ndbooks.com/book/the-invention-of-influence</span></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Goudy Old Style","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;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">
<span style="color:blue">nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></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;color:#1F497D">Poetry at Beinecke Library:
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