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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#7E0000">THE POETRY INSTITUTE – NEW HAVEN</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#7E0000">Featuring</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Kevin Pilkington</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Thursday, October 19, 2017</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:red">
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:120%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:120%;color:black">Kevin Pilkington is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of nine collections: Spare Change was the
La Jolla Poets Press National Book Award winner; Getting By won the Ledge chapbook award; In the Eyes of a Dog received the New York Book Festival Award; The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree was a Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award finalist. His poetry has appeared
in many anthologies including: <i>Birthday Poems: A Celebration</i>, <i>Western Wind</i>, and
<i>Contemporary Poetry of New England</i>. Over the years, he has been nominated for four Pushcarts. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines including:
<i>The Harvard Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Boston Review, Yankee, Hayden’s Ferry, Columbia, North American Review</i>, etc. He has taught and lectured at numerous colleges and universities including The New School, Manhattanville College, MIT,
University of Michigan, Susquehanna University, Georgia Tech. His debut novel Summer Shares was published in 2012 and a paperback edition was reissued in summer 2014. His collection Where You Want To Be: New and Selected Poems was a 2017 IPPY Award Winner.
He completed a second novel and is working on a new collection of poems.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#262626">On the third Thursday 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).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#555555">The Institute Library<br>
847 Chapel Street<br>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#555555">right next door to the</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#7030A0"> Tattoo </span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#555555">Parlor</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#555555">Doors Open at 6:30. Reading starts at 7:00.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#555555">Please arrive a few minutes early to sign up for the reading.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7E0000">Great Poetry!</span></b><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:poetryinstitute@gmail.com">poetryinstitute@gmail.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:blue">Our new website:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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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:
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