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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Save the date!<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Fred Moten, Poetry Reading</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday, November 30, 4:00 pm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Web: <a href="https://goo.gl/4QgEBj">https://goo.gl/4QgEBj</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Co-Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Department of African American Studies, and the School of Art</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Contact: <a href="mailto:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu">nancy.kuhl@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Fred Moten</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> is author of
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition</span></em> (University of Minnesota Press),
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hughson’s Tavern</span></em> (Leon Works),
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">B. Jenkins</span></em> (Duke University Press),
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Feel Trio </span></em>(Letter Machine Editions) and co-author, with Stefano Harney, of
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study
</span></em>(Minor Compositions/Autonomedia). His current projects include two critical texts,
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">consent not to be a single being
</span></em>(forthcoming from Duke University Press) and <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Animechanical Flesh</span></em>, which extend his study of black art and social life, and a new collection of poems,
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Little Edges</span></em>. In 2009 Moten was Critic-in-Residence at
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In Transit 09: Resistance of the Object</span></em>, The Performing Arts Festival at the House of World Cultures, Berlin and was also recognized as one of ten “New American Poets” by the Poetry Society of America;
in 2011 he was a Visiting Scholar and Artist-in-Residence at Pratt Institute; in 2012, he was Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University and a member of the writing faculty of the Milton
Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College; and in 2013 he was a Guest Faculty Member in the Summer Writers Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa Institute. He was also a member of the Critical Theory Institute at the University
of California, Irvine from 2002 to 2004 and a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York from 2001 to 2002. Moten served as a member of the Board of Managing Editors of
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">American Quarterly </span></em>and has been a member of the Editorial Collectives of
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Social Text </span></em>and <em>
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Callaloo</span></em>, and of the Editorial Board of
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">South Atlantic Quarterly</span></em>. He is also co-founder and co-publisher (with Joseph Donahue) of a small literary press called Three Count Pour. (from
<a href="http://english.ucr.edu/people/faculty/fred-moten/" target="_blank">http://english.ucr.edu/people/faculty/fred-moten/</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Read</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Fred Moten's work online:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/fred-moten" target="_blank">Fred Moten at the Poetry Foundation</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/new_american_poets/fred_moten/" target="_blank">Fred Moten at the Poetry Society of America</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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: Poetry at Beinecke Library:
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