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Please celebrate National Poetry Month with us TOMORROW, April 22, at 4:30pm inLinsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 317, with four 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) will be joining us; African American Studies and English Ph.D. student<b>Jessica Marion Modi</b> and Comparative Literature Ph.D. candidate

<b>Ayten Tartici</b>will serve as graduate student openers.<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.</div>

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Jessica Marion Modi is a PhD student in English and African American Studies at Yale University. Before beginning her PhD, she earned an MFA in Poetry from New York University, where she was a Goldwater Fellow. Her work is published or forthcoming in theLARB,

<i>ARCADE</i>, <i>Washington Square Review</i>, and elsewhere.</span>

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 awarded the Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for poetry. Her poems have appeared in </span>

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 Magazine</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and

<span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Innisfree Poetry Journal<span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.

 Her essays have been published in </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Atlantic</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The

 New York Times</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The

 New York Review of Books</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Slate</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">

 and </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Yale Review</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,

 among other publications. She previously completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard, where she was twice the recipient of the Lloyd McKim Garrison Medal for poetry. Raised in Istanbul, she lives in New York City.</span></p>

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