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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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<b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Featuring
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Poetry Translators’ Panel</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">including</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mark Schafer, Eleanor Goodman, and J. Kates</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thursday, November 19, 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:13.0pt">Mark Schafer is an award-winning translator and visual artist, and a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He has translated
poetry, fiction, and essays by Latin American authors from Mexico to Argentina, including David Huerta, Gloria Gervitz, and Alberto Ruy Sánchez (Mexico), Belén Gopegui (Spain), and Virgilio Piñera (Cuba). His website is
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.beforesaying.com&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=ecWTN5WMRQ3KANdhiaOqIrZIiNjZHHluaz2GJwrmXgU&m=otTW1GMGhJmx30HZ7D7jU1TpF3T6JX1MlNFeN2SuTjo&s=iJurowf3vhxxXh0Ze9e81-D-m4_9wzSpie8KKbNfoSs&e=" target="_blank">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">www.beforesaying.com</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Eleanor Goodman’s book of translations,
<i>Something Crosses My Mind: Selected Poems of Wang Xiaoni</i> was the recipient of a 2013 PEN/Heim Translation Grant and was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize and the Lucien Stryk Prize. A book of her own poetry,
<i>Nine Dragon Island</i>, which was shortlisted for the <i>Drunken Boat</i> First Book Prize, will be published this year. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"> J. Kates is a poet, literary translator and the president and co-director of Zephyr Press, a non-profit press that focuses on contemporary works in translation from Russia,
Eastern Europe and Asia. He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry, a Translation Project Fellowship, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the Cliff Becker Book
Prize in Translation for the <i>Selected Poems</i> of Mikhail Yeryomin. He has published three chapbooks of his own poems:
<i>Mappemonde,</i> <i>Metes and Bounds</i> and <i>The Old Testament </i>and a full book,
<i>The Briar Patch</i>. He is the translator of <i>books</i> by Tatiana Shcherbina, Mikhail Aizenberg, Jean-Pierre Rosnay, Regina Derieva, Aleksey Porvin, Nikolai Baitov, and Genrikh Sapgir. He is a former president of the American Literary Translators Association.. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">On the third Thursday of each month, The Poetry Institute Poetry Series celebrates an eclectic mix of poetic voices. Free. Refreshments. (And participants are invited to
bring something 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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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__thepoetryinstitute.com_&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=ecWTN5WMRQ3KANdhiaOqIrZIiNjZHHluaz2GJwrmXgU&m=otTW1GMGhJmx30HZ7D7jU1TpF3T6JX1MlNFeN2SuTjo&s=nGKU8lUC5pQNJW3vbsuaZqnjT8592Er1vqSfpPVIFg4&e=" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">http://thepoetryinstitute.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<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><o:p></o:p></p>
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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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