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<p class="MsoNormal">Please join us for two events with poets Rickey Laurentiis and Ocean Vuong<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Poetry Readings: Thursday, November 2, 4:00PM<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Roundtable discussion: Friday, November 3, 10-11:30am<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">These events are co-sponsored by<i> </i>the Yale Race & Innovative Poetics Working Group; the roundtable discussion will be chaired by Working Group members Clair Schwartz, Camille Owens, and Maryam Parhizkar.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Rickey Laurentiis</b> is the author of Boy with Thorn, selected by Terrance Hayes for the 2014 Cave Canem Poetry Prize (University of Pittsburgh Press). He is recipient of a 2014 fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy,
a 2013 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.
<i><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poetryfoundation.org_poets_rickey-2Dlaurentiis&d=DwMFAg&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=PJitjmyE65gY1iXRgaCrbqDjQ3WUiWvhfKgtZenzZcI&m=hKHVR6MtgZykieAxNeorB0EDYAs-qaOQ0sBYg6czVFk&s=msf2wk5U4E0qUDsZfKKq8fLUat95XN8b18oVBLx5wrM&e="><span style="font-style:normal">From the Poetry Foundation</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Ocean Vuong</b> is the author of the poetry collections Night Sky With Exit Wounds (2016) and the chapbooks No (2013) and Burnings (2010), which was an Over the Rainbow selection by the American Library Association. In 2014, Vuong was
awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He received a Whiting Award in 2016. He is on faculty in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poetryfoundation.org_poets_ocean-2Dvuong&d=DwMFAg&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=PJitjmyE65gY1iXRgaCrbqDjQ3WUiWvhfKgtZenzZcI&m=hKHVR6MtgZykieAxNeorB0EDYAs-qaOQ0sBYg6czVFk&s=ijEp173JxwqjGpZ-DlsQlKYmbwww58THZG700CR0cME&e=">From the Poetry Foundation</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<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: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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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