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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thursday, February 23, 4:00 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="mailto:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu" target="_blank">nancy.kuhl@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;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<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Kenyon Review</span></em>, “[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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/african-american-studies-beinecke-library-poetry-beinecke-library-yale-collection-4" target="_blank">http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/african-american-studies-beinecke-library-poetry-beinecke-library-yale-collection-4</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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" target="_blank">
nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted.<br>
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: Poetry at Beinecke Library:<a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library" target="_blank">http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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