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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series: Emily Skillings</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><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:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">We are thrilled to invite you to our final Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series event of the semester: on
<b>Tuesday, December 5 at 6:30pm in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 319</b>, we will be joined by the talented
<b>Emily Skillings</b>! Skillings will be reading from her exquisite début collection
<i>Fort Not</i>, out last month from The Song Cave. The late John Ashbery hailed the collection as a “staggeringly beautiful, wildly off-kilter account of daily life [ . . . ] a savagely brilliant debut.” Emily will be joined by two fabulous graduate poets:<b>
Maryam Parhizkar</b>, a Ph.D. student in African American Studies and American Studies, and
<b>Michael Abraham</b>, a Ph.D. student in English Literature.<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:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Emily Skillings is the author of the poetry collection
<i>Fort</i> <i>Not</i> (The Song Cave, 2017), which <i>Publishers</i> <i>Weekly</i> called a “fabulously eccentric, hypnotic, and hypervigilant debut,” as well as two chapbooks,
<i>Backchannel</i> (Poor Claudia) and <i>Linnaeus: The 26 Sexual Practices of Plants</i> (No, Dear/ Small Anchor Press). Recent poems can be found/are forthcoming in
<i>Poetry</i>, <i>Harper’s</i>, <i>Boston</i> <i>Review</i>, <i>Brooklyn Rail</i>,
<i>BOMB</i>, <i>Hyperallergic</i>, <i>LitHub</i>, and <i>jubilat</i>. Skillings is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist poetry collective, small press, and event series. She received her MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Creative
Writing Teaching Fellow. She splits her time between Brooklyn and Hudson, NY.<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:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Michael J. Abraham is a first-year PhD student in the English department at Yale University. His research interests include
modern poetics; race, gender, and sexuality studies; and post-Enlightenment formulations of reason and irrationality in Anglophone literature and philosophy. His poetry has appeared in
<i>The Minetta Review</i> and <i>Sundog Lit</i>. He lives in New Haven with his partner, Marco, and their anxious cat, Alfie.<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:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Maryam Ivette Parhizkar is a poet, musician, scholar and author of two chapbooks:
<i>Pull: a ballad</i> (The Operating System, 2014) and <i>As For the Future </i>(Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2016). Her recent writing has appeared in
<i>Amerarcana/Shuffle Boil</i>,<i> Bone Bouquet</i>, <i>The Recluse</i> and other places in the small press/digital sphere. She an editorial board member of Litmus Press and a Ph.D. student in African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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=r8IqsPTMhG14R_QOO_oUwgqK48qHDlPtVyPPNX1phXM&s=lrzNGyW6b2zYCDwttIos6Md7C2kGlMaIPgxGMMsVmUw&e=" target="_blank">here</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">We look forward to having you join us for what will assuredly be an enchanted evening!<o:p></o:p></span></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">
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">Poetry at Beinecke Library:
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