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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Brutal Imagination</i>: A Reading -- 5:00 pm Friday, February 23 at Beinecke Library
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Based on Cornelius Eady’s poem cycle, Brutal Imagination is a powerful examination of the notorious 1994 incident in which a white woman in South Carolina, Susan Smith, claimed that a Black man
had kidnapped her children. The FBI searched for the man until Smith confessed that she had invented the Black man and had drowned her children. Brutal Imagination, two voices inside one consciousness, brings this invented man to life. Written by Oppenheimer
Award-winning playwright and poet Cornelius Eady, directed by and starring Emmy-Award-winner actor Joe Morton and staring Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble cast member Sally Murphy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;background:white">YALE STUDENTS</span></b><span style="color:black;background:white">: Guest artists Joe Morton and Sally Murphy will offer a student workshop about the play on Thursday afternoon, for details,
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<span style="background:white">This event is a collaboration of the Yale Public Humanities Program, the Department of Theater and Performance Studies, the Department of African American Studies, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, hosted in conjunction
with the undergraduate class Approaches to Contemporary Biography at Beinecke Library.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">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;mso-ligatures:none">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;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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