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<a name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#7E0000">THE POETRY INSTITUTE
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#7E0000">– NEW HAVEN</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#7E0000">
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#7E0000">Third Thursday Reading and Open Mic</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt">featuring </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt">Margot Schilpp and Jeff Mock</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt">Thursday, September 18, 2014</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> Jeff Mock is the author of
<i>Ruthless</i>. His poems appear in The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, New England Review, The North American Review, Shenandoah, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA program at Southern Connecticut
State University. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Margot Schilpp is the author of three books of poetry, <i>Civil Twilight,</i> <i>Laws of My Nature</i>, and <i>The World's Last Night</i>. Her poems have appeared widely in literary
journals, including <i>The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, </i>and
<i>Hotel Amerika. </i>She has taught creative writing courses at the University of Cincinnati, Southern Illinois University, and Southern Connecticut State University. She has been awarded writing residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts, and is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Center on Culture and Tourism. <o:p></o:p></p>
<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. Free. Refreshments. (</span><span style="color:#C0504D">And
if you want to bring something to share, that’s good, too.) </span><span style="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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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222"> The Institute Library<br>
847 Chapel Street<br>
New Haven, CT</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222">Doors Open at 6:30. Reading starts at 7:00.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;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;color:#7E0000"> <b>Great Poetry! </b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#7E0000"> In a Warm, Friendly Environment</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#7E0000"> </span></b><a href="http://thepoetryinstitute.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#1155CC">http://thepoetryinstitute.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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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