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<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">FRANCIS CONVERSATIONS WITH WRITERS Co-sponsored by the Beinecke Library and the Yale English Department’s Initiative on Literature and Racial Justice</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> Emily Bernard is the author of
<i>Black Is the Body</i>, a prizewinning collection of deeply personal essays that has been called “riveting,” “unflinchingly honest,” and “life-changing.” Her best-known essay, “Teaching the N-Word,” has been read in schools and colleges across the United
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<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 / 5:00 PM</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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">
nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</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="https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library">https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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