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<p class="MsoNormal">Yale English Department’s Initiative on Literature & Racial Justice presents Randall Horton TODAY at 5pm in LC 211 and over<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://yale.zoom.us/j/92513877955?pwd=eGp0eGcxekErSGpzZm5zY3FIa0cwUT09"><span style="color:#0563C1">zoom</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="jsgrdq">Randall Horton is the author of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="jsgrdq"><i>Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays</i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="jsgrdq">(2022)
and several books of poetry, including</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="jsgrdq"><i>Pitch Dark Anarchy: Poems</i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="jsgrdq">( 2013) and</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="jsgrdq"><i>The
Lingua Franca of Ninth Street</i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="jsgrdq">(2009). His most recent poetry collection,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><span class="jsgrdq"><i>#289–128: Poems</i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="jsgrdq">(2020)
was awarded the American Book Award. In 2019 he served as poet-in-residence for the Civil Rights Corps in Washington, DC, a nonprofit organization dedicated to challenging systemic injustice in the American legal system. His is the recipient of numerous honors,
including the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea González Poetry, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the Great Lakes College Association Award for Creative Nonfiction, and a Right to Return Fellowship from the Soze Foundation. Most
recently Horton received a Creative Capital award to place recording studios/ performance spaces in four correctional facilities. He currently sits on the Advisory Board of PEN America’s PEN Prison Writing Program and is Professor of English at the University
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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">
<span style="color:#0563C1">nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted.
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: Poetry at Beinecke Library:
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