[Wgcp-whc] Fwd: Forum on Religion & Literature with Peter Cole

[Richard Deming]

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> From: "Mahan, David" <david.mahan at yale.edu>
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> Subject: Forum on Religion & Literature with Peter Cole
> Date: January 16, 2015 at 1:09:42 PM EST
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> Happy New Year. It is with great pleasure that I announce our next FORUM ON RELIGION & LITERATURE (see poster attached): 
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> "TOWARDS A JEWISH POETICS?"
> Presented by PETER COLE
> Thursday, February 26, 4:00-5:30
> Linsly Chittendon Hall (LC) Rm. 319
> (Light refreshments will also be provided)
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> I will be sending out an abstract and any other accompanying materials from Peter at least one week before the session.
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> You may RSVP to me directly (david.mahan at yale.edu), and please feel free to forward this announcement to others of your colleagues and/or to your department, including the poster if your departmental office is willing to display it.
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> I hope to see you next month,
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> David
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> Dr. David C. Mahan
> Associate Fellow, Lecturer in Religion & Literature
> Institute of Sacred Music, Yale Divinity School
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> Peter Cole
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>  <http://complit.yale.edu/people/peter-cole>
> Senior Lecturer of Judaic Studies and Comparative Literature
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> Poet and translator Peter Cole has been affiliated with Yale since 2006 and currently teaches classes each spring in the Comparative Literature Department and Judaic Studies. He is the author of four books of poems, including The Invention of Influence and Things on Which I’ve Stumbled (New Directions). Cole’s many volumes of translation from Hebrew and Arabic include The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition (Yale), The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 (Princeton), Taha Muhammad Ali’s So What: New & Selected Poems 1973-2005 (Copper Canyon), Aharon Shabtai’s War & Love, Love & War: New and Selected Poems (New Directions), and the novels of Yoel Hoffmann (New Directions). He has also written a book of non-fiction, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (Schocken/Nextbook), with Adina Hoffman, and edited Hebrew Writers on Writing (Trinity).
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> Cole has received numerous honors for his work, including fellowships from the NEA, the NEH, and the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, the Association of American Publishers’ Hawkins Award for Book of the Year, the PEN Translation Award for Poetry, the American Library Association’s Brody Medal for the Jewish Book of the Year, and a TLS Translation Prize. He is the recipient of a 2010 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2007 was named a MacArthur Fellow.  He divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven.
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