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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#7E0000">THE POETRY INSTITUTE – NEW HAVEN</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Our 6<sup>th</sup> Annual Blue Ribbon Favorite Poem Panel</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Doug Mathewson, Laura Altshul, and Victor Altshul</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thursday, December 17, 2015</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">Doug Mathewson is a Connecticut based writer and editor of short fiction. He is a multiple Pushcart Award nominee, and has been nominated for Best of the Web, and Queen’s Ferry Crossing awards. Most recently, his work has appeared
in the Boston Literary Magazine, Bop Dead City, The Binnacle, Jersey Devil, Ink Sweat and Tears, and Cloud City Press. He is the former fiction Editor of Full of Crow, the street zine MUST, and San Francisco’s Pandemonium Press. He is currently Senior Editor
of Blink Ink, a quarterly print journal of 50 word fiction. </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Laura Altshul taught for years at many levels including college and kindergarten. She never attended kindergarten herself, went straight
to first and missed all the fun; kindergarten remains her favorite grade. She has written stories and essays as well as poems; her poem “Last Visit” won first prize in the Al Savard Memorial Poetry Contest of the Connecticut Poetry Society in 2014. She lives
in New Haven, Connecticut with her husband; together they have seven children and ten grandchildren. </span><em><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Searching for the Northern Lights</span></em><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> is her first poetry collection.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Victor Altshul is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and has authored a number of papers
and book chapters in his field. As a runner, he is the veteran of twenty marathons; and as a rower, of twenty Head of the Charles Regattas. He is also an opera singer, having sung the roles of Benoit and Alcindoro in</span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> <em>La
Bohème</em></span></i><span style="font-size:13.5pt">, and of the Bonze in <em>Madama Butterfly</em>. His books of poetry include <em>Stumblings</em> and <i>Singing with Starlings </i>was published in 2013. He and his wife, Laura, have seven children between
them and even more grandchildren who, “while quite marvelous, are too numerous to count.” The Altshuls live in New Haven, Connecticut.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">For Favorite Poem Night, Open Mic readers are encouraged to bring a favorite poem (although reading your own poem is still acceptable).</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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).</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7E0000"> <b>Great Poetry! </b></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__thepoetryinstitute.com_&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=ecWTN5WMRQ3KANdhiaOqIrZIiNjZHHluaz2GJwrmXgU&m=rox_RWT5OPCPFdTHtBPqrAf9RvA26oAW5XddF1DPbS4&s=8SKXr0WVpECn5KRitziCJgh7HsRaY-aw47YCoiL7kQM&e=" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">http://thepoetryinstitute.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></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:
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