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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">I Killed, I Died: Banter, Self-Destruction, and the Poetry Reading: </span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">A Lecture by Douglas
Kearney | 4pm April 15, 2021 | </span></b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><a href="https://yale.zoom.us/j/92086661577" target="_blank">https://yale.zoom.us/j/92086661577</a></span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#232333"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#232333">A Bagley-Wright Lecture hosted by the Yale Literary Magazine, Yale Creative Writing, Yale Public Humanities, and the Beinecke Library. </span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">While reading from early drafts of Patter, a collection about miscarriage, infertility, and making a Black family in the U.S., Douglas Kearney’s relationship to audiences at poetry gigs changed.
Informed by stand-up, improvisational music, and artists from Nina Simone to the Black Took Collective, Kearney began engaging the time between poems—the banter—to activate the imaginative space of association, mess, and discomfort he pursues in his written
work: live. This lecture will get into the tension between pain and its performance, comedians’ ideas of “killing” and </span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“<span style="color:black">dying,</span>”<span style="color:black">along
with tips on how to sprint into a stone wall without getting hurt much.</span></span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Douglas Kearney </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">has published seven books, including <i>Sho</i>, just out from Wave Books,
the award-winning <i>Buck Studies </i>(Fence Books, 2016); a collection of libretti, <i>Someone Took They Tongues. </i>(Subito, 2016); and writings on poetics and performance, <i>Mess and Mess and </i>(Noemi Press, 2015). He has received a Whiting Writer’s
Award, residencies/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others. Kearney teaches at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">T</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">he Bagley Wright Lecture Series</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
<b>on Poetry</b> supports contemporary poets as they explore<br>
in-depth their own thinking on poetry and poetics, and give a series of lectures resulting<br>
from these investigations. Lectures are delivered publicly in partnership with institutions<br>
and organizations nationwide. Find out more about past, present, and future lecturers, and<br>
explore the archive at <a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bagleywrightlectures.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cnancy.kuhl%40yale.edu%7C4b62da1d6ea64e0612f808d8f314cdad%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637526617982496403%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=EvDrbqfBtbqcjuc3KTktERDmZ0tUH9jAMWFPRn39srI%3D&reserved=0">
www.bagleywrightlectures.org</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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