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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please join us
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">on Thursday, March 26th, for two events with Nathaniel Mackey, winner</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> of the 2015 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Nathaniel Mackey, Public Conversation</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday, March 26th, 11:45am<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">81 Wall Street, Gordon Parks Room #201<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">African American Studies Department</span></em>
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Endeavors</span></em> <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Series</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Contact: 203.432.1177<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Nathaniel Mackey, Poetry Reading</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday, March 26th, 5pm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, Room 211<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Co-Sponsored by the African American Studies Department</span></em>
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">and </span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">the James Weldon Johnson Collection at Beinecke Library</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">About</span></strong>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Nathaniel Mackey</span></strong>: Mackey has authored numerous books of poetry, including the National Book Award-winning “Splay Anthem” (2006), “Nod House” (2011), “Whatsaid Serif” (1998), and “Eroding
Witness” (1985), which was chosen for the National Poetry Series. His most recent book, “Outer Pradesh,” was published in 2014. Additionally, Mackey has published four book-length volumes from his ongoing prose work, “From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume
Still Emanate,” including “Bedouin Hornbook” and “Bass Cathedral.” Among other honors, he has received the Whiting Writer’s Award, the Stephen Henderson Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society, and a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship. He served
as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007 and is the Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing at Duke University. In February, Mackey was awarded the Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="http://news.yale.edu/2015/02/02/nathaniel-mackey-wins-yale-s-2015-bollingen-prize-poetry-0" target="_blank">Nathaniel Mackey wins Yale’s 2015 Bollingen Prize for Poetry</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Nathaniel Mackey at the Poetry Foundation:
</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/nathaniel-mackey">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/nathaniel-mackey</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/african-american-studies-beinecke-library-poetry-beinecke-library/2015/03/09/nathaniel"><span style="font-weight:normal">Nathaniel
Mackey at Yale</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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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