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<h1><span style="font-size:14.0pt">POETRY READING: Charles Simic Thursday, April 11
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday, April 11, 4:00 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Mark Strand Memorial Reading</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Contact: <a href="mailto:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu">nancy.kuhl@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">JOIN US for a reading by poet Charles Simic. Simic is a Serbian-American poet and former co-poetry editor of the Paris Review. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The World Doesn’t End</span></em>, and was a finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Selected Poems</span></em>, 1963-1983 and in 1987 for
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Unending Blues . </span></em>In 2007 he was appointed the 15th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (read more: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simic">Charles Simic</a>).
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<p>Examples of Charles Simic’s work can be found online:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwir9tWmyLHhAhXjkOAKHXUCAY8QFjAAegQIABAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.poetryfoundation.org%2Fpoets%2Fcharles-simic&usg=AOvVaw1zleTDrmEpeV0Gfb6kK_1_">Charles Simic at
the Poetry Foundation</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwir9tWmyLHhAhXjkOAKHXUCAY8QFjABegQIARAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.poets.org%2Fpoetsorg%2Fpoet%2Fcharles-simic&usg=AOvVaw3A5BuLzHNlk_QEhBTi81dt">Charles Simic at
the Academy of American Poets</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a href="https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/mark-strand-memorial-reading">READ more about the Mark Strand Memorial Reading at Beinecke Library</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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">
<span style="color:blue">nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></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"><span style="color:blue">http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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