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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Please join the Graduate Poets Reading Series </span><b style="font-size:12.8px">Thursday, April 16, at 8:00pm in LC 319</b><span style="font-size:12.8px"> for our final event
of the year: a reading by Canadian poet </span><b style="font-size:12.8px">Sina Queyras</b><span style="font-size:12.8px">, who will be joining us from Montreal. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">We are also very pleased to announce that Sina will be joined
by grad poet readers <b>Edgar Garcia</b> (Department of English) and <b>Claire Schwartz</b> (Departments of African American and American Studies). </span></font><span style="font-size: 13px;">We will have copies of </span><i style="font-size: 13px;">Lemon
Hound</i><span style="font-size: 13px;">,</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><i style="font-size: 13px;">Expressway</i><span style="font-size: 13px;">,</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><i style="font-size: 13px;">Autobiography of Childhood</i><span style="font-size: 13px;">,
and</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><i style="font-size: 13px;">MxT</i><span style="font-size: 13px;"> available for purchase at the reading (cash/check only).</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:13px">We will have copies of </span><i style="font-size:13px">Lemon Hound</i><span style="font-size:13px">, </span><i style="font-size:13px">Expressway</i><span style="font-size:13px">, </span><i style="font-size:13px">Autobiography
of Childhood</i><span style="font-size:13px">, and </span><i style="font-size:13px">MxT</i><span style="font-size:13px"> available for purchase at the reading (cash/check only).</span><span style="font-size:13px"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">For more information, please contact Brandon Menke (</span><a href="mailto:brandon.menke@yale.edu" target="_blank" style="font-family:georgia,serif">brandon.menke@yale.edu</a><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">)
or Paul Franz (</span><a href="mailto:paul.franz@yale.edu" target="_blank" style="font-family:georgia,serif">paul.franz@yale.edu</a><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">). You can find our event page </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_events_288152171385332_&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=ecWTN5WMRQ3KANdhiaOqIrZIiNjZHHluaz2GJwrmXgU&m=WzBEkU1-VUO3HPo5qRFgkAjoA3VGmM64e-SUmli_XNE&s=fDuESI9XXTqmRcOMr7cZUTRNrIfg0ZbWjieEHryMjMI&e=" target="_blank" style="font-family:georgia,serif">here</a><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">.
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><b style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Sina Queyras</b><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"> grew up on the road in Western Canada, and has since lived in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, New York,
Philadelphia, and Calgary. She is the author of the poetry collections </span><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Someone from the Hollow</i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"> (1995); </span><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Slip</i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"> (2001); </span><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Teethmarks</i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"> (2004); </span><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Lemon
Hound</i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"> (2006), which received the Pat Lowther Award and a Lambda Literary Award; </span><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Expressway</i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"> (2009);
and </span><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">MxT</i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"> (2014), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry. She is also the author of a collection of essays, 2010's </span><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Unleashed</i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">,
as well as the acclaimed novel </span><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Autobiography of Childhood</i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"> (2011). Since 2005, she has played a crucial role as founder and editor-in-chief
of the blog </span><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Lemon Hound</i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">, which has provided an important forum for discussion of, among others, Canadian feminist, queer, and first nations
poetries.</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">
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<b style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Claire Schwartz</b><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"> is a PhD student in African American Studies and American Studies. Her research focuses on urban space in contemporary Afrodiasporic
poetry and visual arts. Her poetry has appeared journals including: </span><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Cream City Review</i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">, </span><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Front
Porch Journal</i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">, </span><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">poemmemoirstory</i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">, and</span><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Tuesday;
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<b style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Edgar Garcia</b><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"> is graduating from the PhD in English here at Yale in May to begin a position as Neubauer Assistant Professor of English at the University
of Chicago next year. His poems have appeared in print and digital venues such as </span><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Big Bridge</i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">, </span><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Damn
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<i style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Mandorla</i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">. Over the summer, he plans to dedicate time to an ongoing fictional ethnography surrounding anthropogenic climate interference, titled
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