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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Jean Valentine, Poetry Reading</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday, October 12, 4:00 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
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<p class="MsoNormal">Contact: <a href="mailto:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu">nancy.kuhl@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please join us at the Beinecke Library for a reading by 2017 Bollingen Prize winner Jean Valentine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Bollingen Prize judges said of her work: “Jean Valentine is fearless when moving into charged territory and in her work we find mystery and surprise in abundance. Without compromising substance
or sacrificing a reckoning with painful reality, inequity, and loss, there is solace and spirituality, and she radiates responsibility as a voice of clarity and compassion.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Jean Valentine is the author of numerous books and the recipient of many prizes, including the Yale Younger Poets Prize, the National Book Award, the Shelley Memorial Prize, the Wallace Stevens
Award as well as fellowships from the Bunting Institute and the Guggenheim Foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For more information about Jean Valentine and her work:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poetryfoundation.org_poets_jean-2Dvalentine&d=DwMFAg&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=PJitjmyE65gY1iXRgaCrbqDjQ3WUiWvhfKgtZenzZcI&m=AVabScbDs-z_tPo0m0840ufG-ll3NOrZv12PhMr6xks&s=8Ei60IOIi942z6z0Ik9EyRHRiIE-MKOdzW-ejq_8tms&e=">Jean Valentine at The Poetry Foundation</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_poetsorg_poet_jean-2Dvalentine&d=DwMFAg&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=PJitjmyE65gY1iXRgaCrbqDjQ3WUiWvhfKgtZenzZcI&m=AVabScbDs-z_tPo0m0840ufG-ll3NOrZv12PhMr6xks&s=PHvrVequmXqLjoHzQb2DZAF2oSQXP5Y5XT-FnzgdcgA&e=">Jean Valentine at The Academy of American Poets</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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">
<span style="color:blue">nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></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: Poetry at Beinecke Library:
<a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library"><span style="color:blue">http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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