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<p class="MsoNormal" style="punctuation-wrap:simple;text-autospace:none"><b>Tyehimba Jess – Poetry Reading
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="punctuation-wrap:simple;text-autospace:none">Monday, February 13, 5pm
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="punctuation-wrap:simple;text-autospace:none">Linsley-Chittenden Hall, Room 317<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:57.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red">TYEHIMBA JESS<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">RACHEL TZVIA BACK POETRY LECTURE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>author<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>two<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>books of<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>poetry,<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Leadbelly<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Olio,<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>winner<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">20</span>17<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>Pulitzer<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Prize,<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Anisfield-Wolf<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>Book<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Award,<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>The<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Midland<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>Society<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Author’s<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>Award<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>Poetry,<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>received an<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Outstanding<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>Contribution<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to Publishing<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>Citation<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
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</span>Caucus<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>American<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>Library<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Association.<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>It<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
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</span>Writer-In-<span style="letter-spacing:.3pt"> </span>Residence<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Photo © John Midgley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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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