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<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>
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<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
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of
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<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><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Celebrated for his powerful and carefully crafted poems, Komunyakaa has been awarded numerous prizes and honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the
Louisiana Writers Award. About his work, the poet Toi Derricotte wrote for the </span>
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Kenyon Review</span></em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">, “[Yusef Komunyakaa] takes on the most complex moral issues, the most harrowing ugly subjects of our American life. His voice, whether
it embodies the specific experiences of a black man, a soldier in Vietnam, or a child, is universal. It shows us in ever deeper ways what it is to be human.” The Beinecke Library acquired the papers of Yusef Komunyakaa in 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></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:
<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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