<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
p
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;}
p.msonormal0, li.msonormal0, div.msonormal0
{mso-style-name:msonormal;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;}
span.EmailStyle19
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:#1F497D;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7E0000">THE POETRY INSTITUTE –
</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7E0000">NEW HAVEN</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Featuring</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Lauren Hilger</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Thursday, January 19, 2017</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:23.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:#222222">Lauren Hilger is the author of Lady Be Good (CCM, 2016). Awarded the Nadya Aisenberg Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony, where she was a fellow in 2012 and 2014, her work has appeared in <i>Gulf Coast, Harvard Review,
Kenyon Review, Prelude</i>, and elsewhere. She serves as a poetry editor for <i>No Tokens Journal</i>. For more, see <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__laurenhilger.com_&d=CwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=ecWTN5WMRQ3KANdhiaOqIrZIiNjZHHluaz2GJwrmXgU&m=S1em-DumePQVO22T7sVNB_NwEtBscYCJNN7Opqr0zqw&s=A_TJq2zyZP0Dbt9qR-Ck8OSojpEKOyg_LTNl1hvkkME&e=" target="_blank">laurenhilger.com</a></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">On the third Thursday of each month, the Pi 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><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">The Institute Library<br>
847 Chapel Street<br>
New Haven, CT</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">right next door to the</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7030A0"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7030A0">Tattoo</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7030A0"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Parlor</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Doors Open at 6:30. Reading starts at 7:00.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Please arrive a few minutes early to sign up for the reading.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7E0000"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7E0000">Great Poetry!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<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>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="mailto:poetryinstitute@gmail.com">poetryinstitute@gmail.com</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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.
<br>
<br>
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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:46.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>