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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Brandon Menke <brandon.menke@yale.edu> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 11, 2018 11:20 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> TOMORROW: Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize Reading by Duy Doan & Yanyi, 4:30pm, ES Common Room<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cormorant Garamond",serif">Dear friends and colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cormorant Garamond",serif">The Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series and Kundiman are proud to present a special
<b>Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize Reading </b>by<b> Duy Doan </b>and<b> Yanyi</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cormorant Garamond",serif">Please join us on
<b>Friday, October 12 at 4:30pm in the Ezra Stiles College Common Room</b> to hear these exciting poets read from their collections
<i>We Play a Game</i> and <i>The Year of Blue Water</i>, which were selected by Carl Phillips as the winners, respectively, of the 2017 and 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, administered by Yale University Press. This event is co-sponsored by the Asian
American Cultural Center and the Race and Innovative Poetics Working Group.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cormorant Garamond",serif">The Yale Series of Younger Poets champions the most promising new American poets. Awarded since 1919, the Yale Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award
in the United States. Past winners include Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich, William Meredith, W.S. Merwin, John Ashbery, John Hollander, James Tate, and Carolyn Forché. Louise Glück was the judge of the Series from 2003-2010, and Carl Phillips is the current
judge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cormorant Garamond",serif">DUY DOAN</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cormorant Garamond",serif"> is the author of
<i>We Play a Game</i>, winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has appeared in
<i>Poetry</i>, <i>Slate</i>, <i>The Cortland Review</i>, and elsewhere. A Kundiman fellow, he received his MFA in poetry from Boston University. A recipient of awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the St. Botolph Club Foundation, Duy has taught
at Boston University, Lesley University, and the Boston Conservatory. He is the director of the Favorite Poem Project, which celebrates the role of poetry in the lives of Americans. He lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.<br>
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<b>YANYI</b> is a poet and critic. In 2018, he won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, awarded by Carl Phillips, for his first book,
<i>The Year of Blue Water</i> (Yale University Press 2019). Currently, he is an associate editor at
<i>Foundry</i> and an MFA candidate at New York University. He formerly served as Director of Technology and Design at The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, senior editor at
<i>Nat. Brut</i>, and curatorial assistant at The Poetry Project. He is the recipient of fellowships from Asian American Writers Workshop and Poets House. Find his recent work in
<i>LA Review of Books</i>, <i>VIDA</i>, and <i>Memorious</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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We’ll have copies of <i>We Play a Game</i> available for purchase at the reading.<br>
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You can find our event page <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fevents%2F983259175209760%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cnancy.kuhl%40yale.edu%7C4a408c20641b46ffef0008d62f8d29bd%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C636748680682892842&sdata=XLDN8F%2F6YM2IZ3m8o%2BwewH%2FFhsECYsH3bCVZ86qG%2FA8%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">
here</a> and our group page <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgroups%2FYGPRS%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cnancy.kuhl%40yale.edu%7C4a408c20641b46ffef0008d62f8d29bd%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C636748680682892842&sdata=Kl4un9uM8VguW%2FvOIYOUrJ0ReTZsZjNgDn42Xiw7auE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">
here</a>.<br>
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We look forward to having you join us for this very special occasion!<br>
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Warm wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Brandon Menke, Marcus Alaimo, and Kate Needham<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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