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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">We look forward to seeing you at our next Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series event: <b>Thursday, March 8 at 5:30 pm in</b> <b>Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211, </b>acclaimed poet and
cultural critic <b>Wayne Koestenbaum </b>will be reading from his new collection <i>Camp Marmalade</i>, out this month from Nighboat Books. <b>Brandon Menke</b>, Ph.D. candidate in English, will serve as his opening act.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Wayne Koestenbaum</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"> has published nineteen books of poetry, criticism, and fiction, including
<i>Notes on Glaze, The Pink Trance Notebooks, My 1980s & Other Essays, Hotel Theory,</i>
<i>Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Andy Warhol, Humiliation, Jackie Under My Skin,
</i>and <i>The Queen’s Throat</i> (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist). His newest book of poetry,
<i>Camp Marmalade, </i>will be published in March 2018. He has had solo exhibitions of his paintings at White Columns (New York), 356 Mission (L.A.), and the University of Kentucky Art Museum. His first piano/vocal record,
<i>Lounge Act, </i>was issued by Ugly Duckling Presse Records in 2017; he has given musical performances at The Kitchen, REDCAT, Centre Pompidou, The Walker Art Center, and the Renaissance Society. He is a Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative
Literature, and French at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222;background:white">Brandon Menke </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222;background:white">is a poet and Ph.D. candidate
in English at Yale University. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. His dissertation examines queer identities, lyric form, and regionalist aesthetics in 20th-century American literature and visual art. In addition to co-organizing
the Graduate Poets Reading Series, he serves as the editor-in-chief and poetry editor of <i>Palimpsest: Yale Graduate Literary and Arts Magazine</i>, co-convenes the 20th- and 21st-Century Studies Colloquium, and has served as a Guest Critic in the Yale School
of Art. Currently, he is at work on a book project with artists Kyle Goldbach and Martin Bek.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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We’ll have copies of <i>Camp Marmalade </i>available for purchase at the reading.<br>
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You can find our event pages <a href="https://english.yale.edu/event/graduate-poets-reading-series-wayne-koestenbaum" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">here</span></a> and
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_events_1195531567216585_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=utafVVnK_aXVelVdzUMRSiCKdAvNHVBc6mgP9nbKaoE&m=RO_w5wIe4VuhvvQwzWeJ2WC9mNvSe6fwTM8xaONFs9U&s=oEYr-XnqyCAVhR05oFT6sD7_Q-bvCDkI7s8htgFOyNM&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>
Marcus Alaimo</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cormorant Garamond",serif"><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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