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<p class="xxmsonormal"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Nicole Sealey, Poetry Reading</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Thursday, September 27, 4:00 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
</span></em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Contact: <a href="mailto:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu">
nancy.kuhl@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><img border="0" width="150" height="225" style="width:1.5625in;height:2.3437in" id="x_x_Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D448E7.93C62A70" alt="https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/Sealey-N.-Photo-by-Rachel-Eliza-Griffiths-1.jpg"></span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From
<a href="http://nicolesealey.com/" target="_blank">nicolesealey.com</a>: </span></em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Born in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. and raised in Apopka, Florida, Nicole Sealey is the author of
<a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062688804/ordinary-beast" target="_blank">
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ordinary Beast</span></em></a>, finalist for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award, and <a href="http://www.greenlightbookstore.com/book/9780810133129" target="_blank"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The
Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named</span></em></a>, winner of the 2015 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her other honors include a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize
from <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The American Poetry Review</span></em>, a Daniel Varoujan Award and the Poetry International Prize, as well as fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, CantoMundo, Cave Canem, MacDowell Colony
and the Poetry Project. Her work has appeared in <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The New Yorker</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The New York Times</span></em> and elsewhere. Nicole holds an MLA in Africana
studies from the University of South Florida and an MFA in creative writing from New York University. She is the executive director at Cave Canem Foundation, visiting professor at Boston University and the 2018-2019 Doris Lippman Visiting Poet at The City
College of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">***</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">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: 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></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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