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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">You’re Invited to Be Our Guest on Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 10:30 AM </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">The Yale University Women’s Organization Fall Series:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif"> <i>Poetry as Emotional Truth </i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">Connecticut’s Poet Laureate Antoinette Brim-Bell,
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">Connecticut’s 8th State Poet Laureate, is currently Professor of English at Capital Community College in Hartford. She is the author of three full-length poetry collections:
<i>These Women You Gave Me</i>, <i>Icarus in Love</i>, and <i>Psalm of the Sunflower</i>. A critically acclaimed author, Brim is “…..a fierce poet at the peak of her powers…” (Patricia Smith). We will have the opportunity to hear and discuss her poetry and
learn about her role as poet laureate of Connecticut. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">Everyone is invited to remain afterwards in the Center cafeteria to continue discussions with Brim and fellow audience members. Lunch is available for purchase. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="font8"><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">Antoinette Brim-Bell (Antoinette Brim), Connecticut’s 8th State Poet Laureate, is the author of three full-length poetry collections: </span></span><span class="color11"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">These
Women You Gave Me, Icarus in Love, and Psalm of the Sunflower</span></span><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">. She is a Cave Canem Foundation Fellow and an alumna of Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation
(VONA). Her poetry has appeared in various journals, magazines, textbooks, and anthologies, including </span></span><span class="color11"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">Villanelles, 44 on 44: Forty-Four African American Writers
on the 44th President of the United States, Not A Muse, </span></span><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">and has appeared in</span></span><span class="color11"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif"> Poetry
Magazine and Poem-a-Day</span></span><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">. Additionally, Brim-Bell has published critical work, most notably, essays: “Living Behind the Numbers: A Statistic Muses about
her Life” (</span></span><span class="color11"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">National Association of African American Studies Monograph Series</span></span><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">);
“The Myopic Eye in Alice Walker’s ‘Flowers’” (</span></span><span class="color11"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">Critical Insights: Alice Walker, Salem Press</span></span><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">)
and “Juxtaposed Dichotomies: the idealized white suburban pastoral, the surrealist tableau of black poverty & the women in between” (</span></span><span class="color11"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">The Whiskey of Our Discontent:
Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent, Haymarket Books</span></span><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">). </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="font8"><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">A printmaker and collage artist, Brim-Bell exhibited both poetry and monoprints in </span></span><span class="color11"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">Jazz:
An exhibition of Poetry, Prints, and Photography</span></span><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif"> at the Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery in New Haven, CT, and </span></span><span class="color11"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">Sheroes</span></span><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">,
in partnership with the Alliance of Women Veterans at the Grove in New Haven, CT. She serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors of Indolent Arts Foundation based in New York City, is a past Board Member of OneWorld Progressive Institute, and a past President
of the Board of Directors of the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, CT.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">*DIRECTIONS TO THE WEST CAMPUS CONFERENCE CENTER: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">If you are driving from the North or East (New Haven) Take I-95 South to exit 41 (Marsh Hill Rd). At the end of the exit ramp, take a left onto Marsh Hill Rd. At the next traffic light, take a left
onto the West Campus Drive/I-95 Northbound entrance ramp. Stay in the right lane and check in at the Welcome Center for directions to the Conference Center. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif">If you are driving from the South or West (New York) Take exit 41 and go straight ahead at the exit ramp, across Marsh Hill Rd, onto the Northbound entrance ramp. Follow this to the fork, and stay
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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:
<a href="https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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