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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">We are thrilled to invite you to our first Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series event of the semester:
<b>Monday, January 29, at 6pm in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 319</b>, we will be joined by
<b>Jason Labbe</b>, who will be reading from his new full-length collection <i>Spleen Elegy</i> (2017). Jason will be joined by
<b>Lizzie Mundell Perkins</b>, a Ph.D. student in English Literature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"> About the collection, Dan Beachy-Quick writes, "Seeking to find that law or logic to shattering, be it
in the memory-echo of personal trauma caught on infinite loop in the mind, or be it the dismal virtualities of the post-modern ether, the poems of
<i>Spleen Elegy</i> unfold their rueful nostalgia: 'I have something accurate to say that lacks perspective.' That may well be the very accuracy we most need, riding the routes of America, the byways and frontage roads, seeking anyone who is willing for a poem
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Born in New Britain, Connecticut and raised by a machinist and a waitress, Jason Labbe earned his MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. He is the author of a full-length collection
<i>Spleen Elegy</i> (2017) and a handful of chapbooks, including <i>Blackwash Canal</i> (2011) and
<i>Dear Photographer</i> (2009). His poems and prose appear widely in such publications as
<i>Poetry</i> magazine, <i>Boston Review</i>, <i>A Public Space</i>, <i>Conjunctions</i>,
<i>Colorado Review</i>, and <i>DIAGRAM</i>. Labbe has taught writing at the University of Virginia, the University of Connecticut, and Southern Connecticut State University. Also a drummer and recording engineer, he has worked with many artists in New England
and New York City. He splits his time between Bethany, Connecticut and Brooklyn, New York.<br>
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Lizzie Mundell Perkins is a first year Ph.D student in English at Yale who writes fiction and poetry. She completed her Bachelor's degree at St John's College, Oxford, and worked for a while at Oxford University Press, before moving to America to pursue research
in formalism, realism, and Russian influence in the modernist novel. She has spent the last six months intrigued by transatlantic differences; something she is often asked about, and is still trying to find expression for. She is looking forward to sharing
some of her recent poems, including one written for all her American friends.<br>
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We’ll have copies of <i>Spleen Elegy</i> available for purchase at the reading.<br>
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You can find our event page <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_events_121767571864858_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=utafVVnK_aXVelVdzUMRSiCKdAvNHVBc6mgP9nbKaoE&m=7p836n84nGryPgUYg-WFuVYEgK0QjA5r8yCT36adwSQ&s=-0159Twt5dWQIKy5zzu9M2MN36lSdegqNVfTx70fWZM&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=7p836n84nGryPgUYg-WFuVYEgK0QjA5r8yCT36adwSQ&s=p7E8WvrOkZunzD_r-Ktf7EFFp6priZIRZGDScZNSUWA&e=" target="_blank">
here</a>.<br>
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We look forward to having you join us!<br>
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Warm wishes,<br>
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Brandon Menke and Marcus Alaimo<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:
<a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library">http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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