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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Saturday, November 3, 2018, 2:00pm</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">“Perhaps the Truth Depends”</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Cole Swensen considers the age-old question of the relationship between writing and walking, finding
no new answers but a few new avenues of pursuit through close—though flighty—readings of some of Stevens references to walking.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Cole Swensen (<a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coleswensen.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cnancy.kuhl%40yale.edu%7C5c8a71061b6b422fe53f08d6387e767e%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C636758513143271641&sdata=M4Gow3ktEZbXWnw4McKt3UWYllhWjhZ7Jll3WHQD4Js%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">www.coleswensen.com</a>)
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">is the author of seventeen collections of poetry, most recently <i>On Walking On</i> (Nightboat, 2017), <i>Gave</i> (Omnidawn, 2017), and <i>Landscapes on
a Train</i> (Nightboat 2015), and a volume of critical essays. Her poetic collections often turn around specific research projects, including ones on public parks, visual art, illuminated manuscripts, and ghosts. Her work has won the National Poetry Series,
the Iowa Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, and the PEN USA Award in Literary Translation. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the co-editor of the 2009 Norton anthology
<i>American Hybrid</i> and the founding editor of La Presse Poetry (<a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lapressepoetry.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cnancy.kuhl%40yale.edu%7C5c8a71061b6b422fe53f08d6387e767e%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C636758513143271641&sdata=WrIwsaOF%2FYcHCJLPOIxHKCwvUqbDorFvVQ8QwZNJQfk%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">www.lapressepoetry.com</a>).
She teaches at Brown University<b>.</b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This festive and illuminating event will begin with a reception of wine and hors d’oeuvres, followed by Cole Swensen’s
presentation, and will conclude with a book signing, birthday cake and champagne! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Hartford Public Library</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">RSVP</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">—</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jim Finnegan</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:jforjames@aol.com" target="_blank">jforjames@aol.com</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">860-508-2810</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This event is presented by Hartford Public Library (<a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhplct.org&data=02%7C01%7Cnancy.kuhl%40yale.edu%7C5c8a71061b6b422fe53f08d6387e767e%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C636758513143427894&sdata=%2BO4OGJnqcoQeDt6qTDk0eM9fzqxYRCG6Ela6qY7Fvbk%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">hplct.org</a>)
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">and the Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens (<a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstevenspoetry.org&data=02%7C01%7Cnancy.kuhl%40yale.edu%7C5c8a71061b6b422fe53f08d6387e767e%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C636758513143427894&sdata=MJyjcB9Cf8gFVDJPlF7v6PZhtYgLCHspVCWdZuH1F60%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">stevenspoetry.org</a>).</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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For list questions, please email Jim Finnegan<br>
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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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