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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#7E0000">THE POETRY INSTITUTE – NEW HAVEN</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Featuring </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Alfred Corn and Leslie McGrath</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thursday, April 16, 2015</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Alfred Corn’s tenth book of poems, titled
<i>Tables</i>, appeared in January 2013 with Press53. He has also published a novel, titled
<i>Part of His Story</i>; two collections of essays; and <i>The Poem’s Heartbeat</i>, a study of prosody. His work as a poet brought him the Guggenheim fellowship, the NEA, an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and one from the Academy
of American Poets. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, and UCLA. He spends part of every year in the U.K., and Pentameters Theatre in London staged his play
<i>Lowell’s Bedlam</i> in the spring of 2011. In 2012, he was a Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, preparing a translation of Rilke’s
<i>Duino Elegies</i> and returned as a Life Fellow for a second residency in 2013. His first ebook,
<i>Transatlantic Bridge: A Concise Guide to the Differences between British and American English,
</i>was published in 2012. In 2014 Barrow Street Press published his eleventh volume of poems, titled
<i>Unions</i>, and Eyewear will publish his second novel, titled <i>Miranda’s Book</i>.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:normal">Leslie McGrath</span></strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> is a poet and literary interviewer. Winner of the 2004 Pablo
Neruda Prize for poetry, she is the author of <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lesliemcgrath.com_books_opulent-2Dhunger-2Dopulent-2Drage_&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=ecWTN5WMRQ3KANdhiaOqIrZIiNjZHHluaz2GJwrmXgU&m=4Drbl70E0sbkqMYe4M0MK1sXLkJayYxz21TnHYHM1n8&s=ANdD6Ruvfi6PbS9664sc7jvH5n5R7R__-aDakhu2wXk&e=" target="_blank" title="Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage">
<em><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage</span></em></a>,
<em>Toward Anguish</em> and <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lesliemcgrath.com_books_by-2Dthe-2Dwindpipe_&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=ecWTN5WMRQ3KANdhiaOqIrZIiNjZHHluaz2GJwrmXgU&m=4Drbl70E0sbkqMYe4M0MK1sXLkJayYxz21TnHYHM1n8&s=HXgVpR8UL7ZwdnzbW0JlpImUedFMX1cgqPVGlIpZ42k&e=" target="_blank" title="By the Windpipe">
<em><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">By the Windpipe</span></em></a>. McGrath’s satiric novella in verse,
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lesliemcgrath.com_books_out-2Dfrom-2Dthe-2Dpleiades_&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=ecWTN5WMRQ3KANdhiaOqIrZIiNjZHHluaz2GJwrmXgU&m=4Drbl70E0sbkqMYe4M0MK1sXLkJayYxz21TnHYHM1n8&s=nkgNlKNWJjLs8vOdsroaErd0ucEXnQjx6OkFE1UUNRg&e=" target="_blank" title="Out From the Pleiades">
<em><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Out From the Pleiades</span></em></a>, was published in 2014. Her poems have recently appeared widely, most recently in
<em>The Awl</em>, <em>Agni</em>, <em>Salamander</em>, and <em>The Common</em>. She teaches creative writing and literature at Central Connecticut State University and is series editor of
<em>The Tenth Gate</em>, a poetry imprint of The Word Works press. </span><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="font-size:13.0pt">On the third Thursday of each month, The Pi Poetry Series celebrates an eclectic mix of poetic voices. Free. Refreshments. (and even more, if you
bring some to share) Open mic. Outstanding featured readers. In a casual setting. Open to all members of the public (and even others).
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;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:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">right next door to the</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7030A0"> </span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7030A0">Tattoo</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7030A0"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Parlor</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;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;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;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:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7E0000"> <b>Great Poetry! </b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7E0000"> In a Warm, Friendly Environment</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__thepoetryinstitute.com_&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=ecWTN5WMRQ3KANdhiaOqIrZIiNjZHHluaz2GJwrmXgU&m=4Drbl70E0sbkqMYe4M0MK1sXLkJayYxz21TnHYHM1n8&s=sAtR82AUo6ZEGFAweatHDesjztHFVnOnEpAOL27D-QE&e=" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">http://thepoetryinstitute.com</span></a><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><a href="mailto:poetryinstitute@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">poetryinstitute@gmail.com</span></a>
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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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