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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Dear colleagues:<br>
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We warmly invite you to a very special First Books reading by the marvelous <b>Jennifer Nelson</b> (GSAS '13) and
<b>Margaret Ross</b> on <b>Saturday, February 27, at 8:00pm in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 319</b>. Jennifer and Margaret will be reading from their recently published first collections—<i>Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife</i> and
<i>A Timeshare</i>, respectively. You will not want to miss this evening of exquisite verse, co-sponsored by WAVEMACHINE!<br>
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Jennifer Nelson's first book of poems, <i>Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife</i>, came out with Ugly Duckling Presse in Dec. 2015. She is a fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows and teaches in the art history department at the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor.<br>
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Margaret Ross is the author of <i>A Timeshare</i>, selected by Timothy Donnelly for the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize. Her poems and translations appear or are forthcoming in <i>A Public Space, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Fence, The New Republic </i>and<i> The
New Yorker</i>. Her honors include scholarships and fellowships form the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Fulbright Program, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Yaddo and Stanford, where she is currently a Stegner Fellow. More at <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__margaret-2Dross.com_&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=atmIqH8C3v6QTl7P0ptZhY2IqpSIbBKLuFH28cUIrlY&m=DbfbDTX6bLRYZpuIp0PonXSYdxnsDGMUuQ-Xvn7XBFY&s=CCOagEAf5tVwjWap0E932IZdwK64vHQ85fl-J-3eIAU&e=" target="_blank">margaret-ross.com</a>.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i>Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife</i> and <i>A Timeshare</i> available for purchase (cash/check only).</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">You can find our event page
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here</a> and our group page <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_groups_YGPRS_&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=ecWTN5WMRQ3KANdhiaOqIrZIiNjZHHluaz2GJwrmXgU&m=-Et3Eg4TooVAosoQIS_ZkA6a8YL5nbK2hu9su4xOwAs&s=eUCb1ImwUPm9KK-0kPImkdAgHdIF2JZYiM37qTpEpEI&e=" target="_blank">
here</a>.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Fondly and all best,</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Brandon & Paul</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Graduate Poets Reading Series | Contemporary Poetry Colloquium<br>
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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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