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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-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">A Night of Poetry in Response to</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Black Lives Matter Issues</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thursday, February 18, 2016</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">When is it time for poets to step forward</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt"> and take a stand on social issues? </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">Maybe that time is now.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#7E0000">A Few Notes about this Week’s Special Event:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#7E0000">Correction: The date of the event is actually February 18, 2016 (not 2015, as previously shown). Sorry for the mistake.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#7E0000">The Black Lives Matter movement raises important issues for everyone. This event will be the first time that Pi Poetry Reading Series focuses on a single issue.
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#7E0000">For our open mic, readers are encouraged to deal with Black Lives Matter issues in their poems, but this is not required. People can read whatever they like. Open mic reading has a one poem limit of 4 minutes or
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#7E0000">For this occasion, the open mic will follow the special event, rather than occurring first, as it usually does.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><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"><span style="color:blue">nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></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"><span style="color:blue">http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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