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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Dear poetry lovers:<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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The 2017-2018 season of the Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series commences on
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<b>Monday, October 23, at 6:00pm</b></span><b> in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 319</b>, with a very special reading by
<b>DéLana R. A. Dameron</b>. Dameron will be sharing work from her exciting new collection
<i>Weary Kingdom</i>, about which Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess writes, "DéLana R. A. Dameron has scored us a space brimmed with memory and light, a song of migration and family that shimmers and burns across the page. Her poems trance subways and kudzu
and pepper spray across a Mason Dixon trail of family and loves. Witness these epistles to beetle and moth, to river bend voices blooming in an embattled cityscape that weaves us whole." We're also very happy to announce that
<b>Tobi Kassim</b>, a first year Ph.D. student in the English Department, will serve as DéLana's opening act. Copies of
<i>Weary Kingdom</i> will be available for purchase after the reading.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">A native of Columbia, South Carolina, DéLana R.A. Dameron is a writer and arts and culture administrator living in Brooklyn,
NY. Dameron’s second collection of poems <i>Weary Kingdom </i>(2017) is part of the University of South Carolina Palmetto Poetry Series, edited by Nikky Finney. Dameron’s debut collection
<i>How God Ends Us</i> (2009) was selected by Elizabeth Alexander for the 2008 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. She has conducted readings, workshops and lectures all across the United States, Central America and Europe. Dameron holds a Master of Fine Arts
in Poetry from New York University where she was a Goldwater Hospital Writer’s workshop fellow. Dameron has had essays, interviews, and poems published in the
<i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i>, <i>ARTS.BLACK</i>, <i>Storyscape Journal, The Rumpus</i>,
<i>Epiphany Magazine</i>, the <i>Tidal Basin Review</i>, and <i>The New Sound Journal</i>. Dameron writes poetry attuned to migration, the environment, and history; her lyrical voice inscribes her personal history into a deep communal history of black migration
and belonging. Her writing blends the mythic with the quotidian, the spiritual with the concrete, crafting a lyrical celebration of black life and urging us to consider radical ways of existing in and transforming our world.
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.delanaradameron.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=utafVVnK_aXVelVdzUMRSiCKdAvNHVBc6mgP9nbKaoE&m=qTu-wHyrbbWopo45k65x-vDorPxZgcExKHqcJreSoOs&s=MTaXmaSPpG0lsuxVNT8Pt0f-Ski4Ygp5et4KFnIMg4k&e=" target="_blank">
www.delanaradameron.com</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Tobi
<span class="gmail-m-7922058695352595880gmail-il">Kassim</span> is a first year studying contemporary African American poetry. He studied creative writing as an undergraduate at George Mason University, and attended the Seminar for Undergraduate Poets at Bucknell
University in 2016.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">You can find our event page <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_events_513276789036062_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=utafVVnK_aXVelVdzUMRSiCKdAvNHVBc6mgP9nbKaoE&m=qTu-wHyrbbWopo45k65x-vDorPxZgcExKHqcJreSoOs&s=MjW2Qzwr_A4eSPJ2hE_GvlylxRGGidWFqnI1maLicVI&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=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=utafVVnK_aXVelVdzUMRSiCKdAvNHVBc6mgP9nbKaoE&m=qTu-wHyrbbWopo45k65x-vDorPxZgcExKHqcJreSoOs&s=2IKxP3IhRbb6d7jZJ1RUxpr0zeddBUgHi3Djq06QmVo&e=" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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:
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