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Dear friends and colleagues:<br>
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The Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series is thrilled to announce its upcoming reading, celebrating National Poetry Month, on
<b>Monday, April 22</b>, at <b>4:30pm</b> in <b>Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 317</b>, with two marvelously talented poets:
<b>Meghan O'Rourke</b>, incoming editor of <i>The Yale Review</i> and author of three collections of poetry, most recently
<i>Sun in Days</i> (W. W. Norton & Company, 2017), and the memoir <i>The Long Goodbye</i> (Riverhead Books, 2011), and
<b>Ben Purkert</b>, author of <i>For the Love of Endings</i> (Four Way Books, 2018).<br>
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<b>Meghan O'Rourke</b> is the author of the collections <i>Sun in Days</i>, <i>Halflife</i>, and
<i>Once</i>, as well as a memoir, <i>The Long Goodbye</i>. A former editor at <i>
The New Yorker</i>, she has served as culture editor and literary critic for <i>Slate</i>, poetry editor for the
<i>Paris Review</i>, and is currently the editor of <i>The Yale Review</i>. Her poems and essays have appeared in
<i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>The Best American Poetry</i>, the <i>New Republic</i>, and
<i>Poetry</i>, among others. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, and other awards, she lives in Brooklyn.<br>
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<b>Ben Purkert</b> is the author of <i>For the Love of Endings</i> (Four Way Books, 2018). His poems appear in
<i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>Poetry</i>, <i>Kenyon Review</i>, <i>Tin House Online</i>,
<i>Ploughshares</i>, and elsewhere. A contributing editor at <i>Guernica</i>, he is the founder of Back Draft, an interview series focused on poets and revision. He currently teaches at Rutgers.<br>
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We'll have copies of <i>Sun in Days</i> and <i>For the Love of Endings </i>available for purchase at the reading.<br>
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You can find our event page <a href="https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fevents%2F648837752231955%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cnancy.kuhl%40yale.edu%7Cee5192c20c6749e2f72a08d6c1b7d15e%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C636909392571247301&sdata=mPVeABxvx2pan4EzArkEU8AdKpMy6Rcl0siIcHkTrBY%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" originalsrc="https://www.facebook.com/events/648837752231955/" shash="vjCISEMvdc0XSsKVlDfacd0ZiaR5BdVc5TvWyecaRvPym5sTYFv+mcaGWInV5C2qLQEsFBYLr/4iTRnYNBD0g/qCdYh94tccAEPwIaUu/p27EejdpBEb7yKWU7PVVtME230Xd5ezqc5CHYMNjQFkE0XAjI7My5wdIU1+86DOh1Q=">
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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,<br>
Brandon Menke, Marcus Alaimo, & Kate Needham<br>
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Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series | Contemporary Poetry Colloquium<br>
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