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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> The Poetry Institute -- New Haven <poetryinstitute@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 6, 2017 9:54:54 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Charles Fort Poetry Reading, 8/24/17</font>
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<p style="margin:0px 68px 0px 0px; text-align:center"><b><font color="#7e0000" size="5">THE POETRY INSTITUTE –
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<b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(126,0,0); line-height:200%; font-size:18pt">NEW HAVEN</span></b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(34,34,34); line-height:200%; font-size:7pt"></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin:0px 68px 0px 0px; text-align:center"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="5">Charles Fort</font></h2>
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<span style="margin:0px; color:black; line-height:200%; font-size:13.5pt">Thursday, August 24, 2017</span><b><span style="margin:0px; color:red; line-height:200%; font-size:16pt">
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<b><span style="margin:0px; color:red; line-height:200%; font-size:14pt">(Note: There is no reading on
<span tabindex="0" class="gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-aQJ">8/17/17</span></span>.)</span></b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(34,34,34); line-height:200%; font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p style="background:white; margin:0px 68px 0px 0px"><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(38,38,38); line-height:200%; font-size:13.5pt; text-decoration:none">C</span><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(38,38,38); line-height:200%; font-size:13.5pt; text-decoration:none">harles
Fort is the author of six books of poetry including: <i>We Did Not Fear the Father</i><span style="margin:0px">
</span>and <i>Mrs. Belladonna’s Supper Club Waltz</i>. Fort has poems in The Best American Poetry, 2000, 2003, and 2017. He is Distinguished Emeritus Professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and Founder of the Wendy Fort Foundation and Theater of
Fine Arts. In 2017, Fort completed, Sorrow Road; 200 Villanelles: including, sequences on Bergman films and Dante's<i> Inferno</i>. His first novel The Last Black Hippie in Connecticut.</span><span style="margin:0px; color:windowtext; line-height:200%; font-size:13.5pt; text-decoration:none">
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<p style="margin:0px 68px 0px 0px"><font color="#262626" face="Times New Roman" size="4">On the third
<span tabindex="0" class="gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-aQJ">Thursday</span></span> of each month, The Poetry Institute Poetry Series celebrates an eclectic mix of poetic voices. Free. Refreshments. (And participants are invited to bring something to share.)
Open mic. Outstanding featured readers. In a casual setting. Open to all members of the public (and even others).</font><span style="margin:0px; line-height:200%"></span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(85,85,85); line-height:200%; font-size:10pt"> </span></b><b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(85,85,85); line-height:200%; font-size:13.5pt">The Institute Library<br>
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<b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(85,85,85); line-height:200%; font-size:13.5pt">847 Chapel Street<br>
New Haven, CT</span></b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(34,34,34); line-height:200%; font-size:7pt"></span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(85,85,85); line-height:200%; font-size:13.5pt">right next door to the</span></b><b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(112,48,160); line-height:200%; font-size:13.5pt"> Tattoo </span></b><b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(85,85,85); line-height:200%; font-size:13.5pt">Parlor</span></b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(34,34,34); line-height:200%; font-size:7pt"></span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(85,85,85); line-height:200%; font-size:13.5pt"></span></b><b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(85,85,85); line-height:200%; font-size:13.5pt">Doors Open at
<span tabindex="0" class="gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-aQJ">6:30</span></span>. Reading starts at
<span tabindex="0" class="gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-aQJ">7:00</span></span>.</span></b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(34,34,34); line-height:200%; font-size:7pt"></span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(85,85,85); line-height:200%; font-size:13.5pt">Please arrive a few minutes early to sign up for the reading.</span></b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(34,34,34); line-height:200%; font-size:7pt"></span></p>
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