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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cormorant Garamond",serif">We look forward to seeing you at our next Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series event of the semester:
<b>Thursday, February 15 at 4:00pm in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211</b>, we will be joined by esteemed poet and translator
<b>Peter Cole</b>, who will be reading from his new collection <i>Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations</i>, out now from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.
<b>Claire Schwartz</b>, Ph.D. candidate in African American and American Studies and author of
<i>bound</i> (Button Poetry, 2018), will serve as his opening act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cormorant Garamond",serif">Poet and translator Peter Cole has been affiliated with Yale since 2006 and currently teaches classes each spring in the Comparative Literature Department and Judaic
Studies. He is the author of five books of poems, most recently <i>Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations
</i>(FSG). Cole’s many volumes of translation from Hebrew and Arabic include <i>The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition (Yale),</i> <i>The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492
</i>(Princeton), Taha Muhammad Ali’s <i>So What: New & Selected Poems 1973-2005</i> (Copper Canyon), Aharon Shabtai’s <i>War & Love, Love & War: New and Selected Poems</i> (New Directions), and the novels of Yoel Hoffmann (New Directions). He has also written
a book of non-fiction, <i>Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (Schocken/Nextbook),</i> with Adina Hoffman, and edited <i>Hebrew Writers on Writing</i> (Trinity).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cormorant Garamond",serif">Cole has received numerous honors for his work, including fellowships from the NEA, the NEH, and the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry,
the Association of American Publishers’ Hawkins Award for Book of the Year, the PEN Translation Award for Poetry, the American Library Association’s Brody Medal for the Jewish Book of the Year, and a <i>TLS </i>Translation Prize. He is the recipient of a 2010 Award
in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2007 was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is currently a co-editor of Princeton University Press’s Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, and divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cormorant Garamond",serif">Claire Schwartz is the author of
<i>bound </i>(Button Poetry, 2018). Her poetry has appeared in <i>Apogee</i>, <i>Bennington Review</i>, <i>The</i>
<i>Massachusetts Review</i>, and <i>Prairie</i> <i>Schooner</i>, and her essays, reviews, and interviews in <i>Georgia Review</i>, <i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i>, <i>The Iowa Review</i>, <i>Virginia Quarterly Review</i>, and elsewhere. She is a PhD Candidate
in African American Studies and American Studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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We’ll have copies of <i>Hymns and Qualms</i> and <i>bound </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_156763971713084_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=utafVVnK_aXVelVdzUMRSiCKdAvNHVBc6mgP9nbKaoE&m=9386buHm0j_0dK-qOeRSN9zvXznXptwHEtBA0qbj2p0&s=YRcV87_626Xew3ZuPfjW9oDUxsfzH6_KIXZAajQJQJg&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=9386buHm0j_0dK-qOeRSN9zvXznXptwHEtBA0qbj2p0&s=an5AW8S8jhLf2_90n1T57yDLoFD80eSXGWxGRgaFqcM&e=" target="_blank">
here</a>.<br>
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We look forward to having you join us for this very special evening!<br>
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Warm wishes,<br>
Brandon Menke and Marcus Alaimo<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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