[Wgcp-whc] Beinecke Small Press Reading Room 2

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Beinecke Small Press Reading Room, sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature, the Yale Lit, and the Yale Working Group in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Thursday, November 14th, 3:30-5:30pm
Beinecke Library Rooms 38 & 39
Guests: Guy Pettit of Flying Object (Hadley, MA) , Joshua Beckman of Wave Books (Seattle), Matvei Yankelevich of Ugly Duckling Presse (NYC)
To RSVP Visit: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsNIJqX-_na6dHNhbWduWUgxbUNsRTU2elRWOXFUd3c&usp=sharing#gid=0

Please join us for the second Beinecke Library Small Press Open Reading Room on Thursday, November 14th. A variation on last year's event, this year will offer an open-house style opportunity to read and handle recent publications by Ugly Duckling Presse, Wave Books, and Flying Object, and the chance to talk with key representatives from each press: Guy Pettit of Flying Object (Hadley, MA) , Joshua Beckman of Wave Books (Seattle), Matvei Yankelevich of Ugly Duckling Presse (NYC). Come survey the state of the art in alternative literary publications and contemporary poetry and prose at the Beinecke Library and talk with three editors/publishers/writing working at the leading edge of American literature.

The event program will unfold as follows:
3:30pm--reading room open for browsing
4:30pm-introduction and brief remarks from visiting publishers, followed by informal q & a
additional browsing and conversation until 5:30pm
5:30-6:30pm--post-event pizza party in Beinecke Staff Lounge

PLEASE: RSVP using the following form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsNIJqX-_na6dHNhbWduWUgxbUNsRTU2elRWOXFUd3c&usp=sharing#gid=0

For more information, contact Nancy Kuhl: nancy.kuhl at yale.edu<mailto:nancy.kuhl at yale.edu> or 203.432.2966

About visiting the Beinecke Library classrooms: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs-events/teaching-beinecke/seminar-room-use-guidelines

Note: All visitors are asked to leave their belongings, including coats and hats, in the lockers and racks on the main floor. Please do not bring food or drink into the library. Yale affiliates should bring their Yale ID downstairs with them in order to sign in.




Nancy Kuhl
Curator of Poetry, Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street, P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966

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