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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Dear colleagues: <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">We hope you’ll join us for the next event of the Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series spring season:
<b>TOMORROW at 6:30pm in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 319</b>, we will be joined by poets
<b>Trace Peterson</b> and <b>Samuel Ace</b>. Both of these fabulous poets have been finalists for Lambda Literary Awards, and both contributed to the groundbreaking anthology
<i>Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics</i>, which Peterson also co-edited.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Sam Huber</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">, a Ph.D. student in English and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Program, will serve as Trace and Samuel’s opening act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Trace Peterson is a scholar and poet. Author of
<i>Since I Moved In</i> (Chax Press) and several new forthcoming books of poems, she is also known as Editor/Publisher of the Lammy-winning press EOAGH Books, and as Co-Editor of the anthology
<i>Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics</i> (Nightboat Books). She most recently co-edited
<i>Arrive on Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott</i> (Chax Press). Her recent poetry and criticism appear in
<i>TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly</i>, <i>PEN America</i>, <i>The Academy of American Poets
</i>(<i><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__poets.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=6Dwp5nYGO6K3sskTqVRFP6VAEb3VqQsxHxOSA0G4xIM&m=RgdvOwug_4kGt-Kj7wcUsEy4bYT1bGzCUnQaxBPmvAA&s=eryf5QSGDPfVp_3LVdl_KpCz8vaQjnglkIX4rH811zc&e=" target="_blank">poets.org</a></i>),
and <i>Boston Review</i>. She currently teaches Transgender Cultural Production at Yale in WGSS.<br>
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Samuel Ace is a trans/genderqueer poet, sound artist, photographer and teacher. He has published three collections of poetry:
<i>Normal Sex</i>, <i>Home in three days. Don’t wash</i>., and most recently, <i>
Stealth</i>, co-authored with poet Maureen Seaton. A Yale graduate, he is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, two-time finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Poetry, winner of the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund Award in Poetry, The
Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in poetry. He was also a recent finalist for the National Poetry Series. His work has been widely anthologized and has appeared in or is forthcoming from
<i>Poetry, Fence, Posit, Vinyl, Plume, Aufgabe, Atlas Review, Mandorla, Volt, Ploughshares, Eoagh, Spiral Orb, Kenyon Review, Everyday Genius, Rhino, 3:am, Versal, Trickhouse, The Collagist, Eleven Eleven, Tupelo Quarterly, The Volta, Devouring the Green, Troubling
the Line: Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics,</i> and <i>Best American Experimental Poetry 2016</i>. His first two books will be republished by the Belladonna* Cooperative in 2018. He lives in Tucson, AZ and Florence, MA, where he is currently a Visiting Lecturer
in Creative Writing at Mount Holyoke College. His work can be found at <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.samuelace.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=6Dwp5nYGO6K3sskTqVRFP6VAEb3VqQsxHxOSA0G4xIM&m=RgdvOwug_4kGt-Kj7wcUsEy4bYT1bGzCUnQaxBPmvAA&s=YZ6y1jAgI67fDIu2T3jKAUHA31KOIkgJS1FfA_H5aJs&e=" target="_blank">
www.samuelace.com</a>.<br>
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Sam Huber is a second-year graduate student in English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale and a books columnist for Feministing.com.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">You can find our event page <span style="color:blue"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_events_282210435562887_&d=DwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=6Dwp5nYGO6K3sskTqVRFP6VAEb3VqQsxHxOSA0G4xIM&m=RgdvOwug_4kGt-Kj7wcUsEy4bYT1bGzCUnQaxBPmvAA&s=DfsfhaDk_xXfU1cm_w1zbGRExozPjDZc3E3_cbA7bw4&e=" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none">here</span></a></span> and
our group page <span style="color:blue"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_groups_YGPRS_&d=DwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=6Dwp5nYGO6K3sskTqVRFP6VAEb3VqQsxHxOSA0G4xIM&m=RgdvOwug_4kGt-Kj7wcUsEy4bYT1bGzCUnQaxBPmvAA&s=MrbFSD5N0sKQ-wzdxFzbbLewqmt532k51-pzC2Ffx2s&e=" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none">here</span></a></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">We look forward to seeing you at the reading!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Fondly and all best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Brandon Menke and Kimberly Andrews<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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readings, send the full text of the announcement, including contact information, to
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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>
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