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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>READINGS AT YALE: SPRING 2017<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">For updates visit: <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library/readings-yale-university">http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library/readings-yale-university</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Reginald Dwayne Betts, Poetry Reading:
</span></strong><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Bastards of the Reagan Era</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Thursday, January 26, 5:30 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Sterling Memorial Library Auditorium, 120 Wall Street<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Literature & Spirituality Series, Institute of Sacred Music
</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Contact: <a href="http://ism.yale.edu/" target="_blank">
http://ism.yale.edu/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ben Lerner, Reading</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Monday, February 6, 5:00 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, Room: TBA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Schlesinger Visiting Writer Series, Department of English</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">More Information: <a href="http://english.yale.edu/event/schlesinger-visiting-writer-series-ben-lerner" target="_blank">
Schlesinger Visiting Writer Series-Lerner</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Yusef Komunyakaa, Poetry Reading</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Thursday, February 23, 4:00 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of
</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Contact: <a href="mailto:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu">
nancy.kuhl@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Kirstin Valdez Quade, Reading</span></strong>:
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sin, Story, and Salvation</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Thursday, February 23, 5:30 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Sterling Memorial Library Auditorium, 120 Wall Street<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Literature & Spirituality Series, Institute of Sacred Music
</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Contact: <a href="http://ism.yale.edu/" target="_blank">
http://ism.yale.edu/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tonya Foster, Layli Long Soldier, & Safiya Sinclair, Poetry Readings</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The State of the Art: Celebrating Three First Books</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Thursday, March 9, 4:00PM.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Co-Sponsored by
</span></em>the Yale Race & Innovative Poetics Working Group<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Contact: <a href="mailto:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu">
nancy.kuhl@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Brian Seibert, Reading</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Thursday, March 30,00 4:00PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, Room TBA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">of the English Department</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Contact: 203-432-2233<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Cynthia Zarin, Poetry Reading</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Tuesday, April 4, 6:30PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, Room 319<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Graduate Poets Reading Series</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">More Information: <a href="http://english.yale.edu/event/graduate-poets-reading-series-cynthia-zarin" target="_blank">
The Graduate Poets Reading Series-Zarin</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Jackie Sibblies Drury, Drama Reading</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Thursday, April 6, 4:00 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Contact: <a href="mailto:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu">
melissa.barton@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Averill Curdy & Penelope Pelizzon, Poetry Reading</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Thursday, April 6, 5:30 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Sterling Memorial Library Auditorium, 120 Wall Street<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Literature & Spirituality Series, Institute of Sacred Music
</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Contact: <a href="http://ism.yale.edu/" target="_blank">
http://ism.yale.edu/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Nadja Spiegelman, Reading and Conversation</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Thursday, April 6, 8:00 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Branford College, 74 High Street, Common Room<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Francis Conversations with Writers</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> More Information: <a href="http://english.yale.edu/event/francis-conversations-writers-spring-2017-event-nadja-spiegelman" target="_blank">English Department Events-Spiegelman</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Yale Student Poets Reading</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Tuesday, April 25, 4:00 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Contact: <a href="mailto:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu">
nancy.kuhl@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Poetry at Beinecke Library:
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