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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear poetry lovers:</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This is a friendly reminder that the finale of the spring season of the Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series will be
<b>TODAY at 5:30pm in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211</b>. We will be joined by <b>
Charif Shanahan</b>, Cave Canem fellow, Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award winner, Fulbright Morocco fellow, and Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University. He will be reading from his book
<i>Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing</i>, about which Yusef Komunyakaa writes, "Here in these pages the politics of color is highly personal; in a time of bleaching creams and psychological erasures, where there’s an attempt to diminish the African, this
poet confronts himself and family head-on, and in doing so, through wit and an astute sense of history, his poetry dares to affect the reader.”<br>
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<b>Brandon Menke</b>, a Ph.D. candidate in English, will serve as Charif’s opening act.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Charif Shanahan is the author of
<i>Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing</i> (SIU Press, 2017), winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including
<i>Baffler</i>, <i>Boston Review</i>, <i>Callaloo</i>, <i>Literary Hub</i>, <i>New Republic</i>,
<i>Poetry International</i>, <i>Prairie Schooner</i>, and <i>A Public Space</i>. A Puschart Prize nominee, he is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Cave Canem Foundation, the Frost Place, the Fulbright Program/IIE,
Millay Colony for the Arts, and Stanford University, where he is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. Born and raised in the Bronx to an Irish-American father and a Moroccan mother, Charif has extensive international experience and has lived in Argentina, Italy,
Morocco, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. From 2012-2015, Charif was Programs Director of the Poetry Society of America. Charif has taught creative writing, literature, and language at Dartmouth College, the Collegio di Milano (Italy), International
House (Europe, North America), New York University, and Stanford University. <br>
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Brandon Menke is a poet and Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at Yale University. Before coming to Yale, he received his BA in English and Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis and his MFA in Poetry from NYU, where he served as the Poetry
Editor of <i>Washington Square Review</i>. His dissertation examines queer identities, lyric form, and regionalist aesthetics in 20th-century American literature and visual art. Currently, Brandon is at work on a book project with artists Kyle Goldbach and
Martin Bek, and he serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief and Poetry Editor of <i>Palimpest: Yale Graduate Literary & Arts Magazine</i>.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">You can find our event page <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_events_254964104911436_&d=DwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=6Dwp5nYGO6K3sskTqVRFP6VAEb3VqQsxHxOSA0G4xIM&m=b6BIGJxN2i2sUEDtzNPs7yb5Kxz3UEz3nJZPYgbfZ9s&s=6pG7lxVfguP-AxgBfTX9xkS-dFeTpMuz2YIYCyIBa5U&e=" target="_blank">here</a> and
our group page <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_groups_YGPRS_&d=DwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=6Dwp5nYGO6K3sskTqVRFP6VAEb3VqQsxHxOSA0G4xIM&m=b6BIGJxN2i2sUEDtzNPs7yb5Kxz3UEz3nJZPYgbfZ9s&s=eLpkGMWp0N3TrbLhWC_XJzUEBYAWH58EqI5sdj9j4Kk&e=" target="_blank">here</a>.
We will have copies of Charif's book available for purchase following the event.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We look forward to seeing you tonight!</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Fondly and all best,</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kimberly Andrews</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Graduate Poets Reading Series</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.
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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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