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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The spring season of the Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series commences on
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<b>Friday, February 8, at 4:30pm</b></span><b> in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 319</b>, with a very special reading by
<b>Chase Berggrun</b>. Berggrun will be sharing work from <i>R E D</i>, of which <i>
Publishers Weekly</i> writes in a starred review, "In Berggrun’s striking debut, a book-length erasure of Bram Stoker’s
<em><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Dracula</span></em>, that text becomes fertile soil for cultivating complex story of sexual awakening, domestic abuse, and liberation. . . . When the speaker asserts that 'I am sane though proving it has been dreadful,'
readers hear her triumphant reclamation of agency after abuse and recognize its resonance with the process of gender transition in a transphobic society."
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Chase Berggrun is a trans poet. She is the author of
<i>R E D</i> (Birds, LLC, 2018). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in <i>Poetry</i>,
<i>APR</i>, <i>jubilat</i>, Poem-A-Day, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from NYU, and edits poetry for
<i>Big Lucks</i>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",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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