[Yale-readings] Vivian Shipley to Read December 18

[Nancy Kuhl]

On December 18, 2003, poet and winner of the 2003 Connecticut Book Award 
for Poetry Vivian Shipley will read from her recent book When There Is No 
Shore as part of the Yale University Program for Humanities in Medicine 
2003-2004 Lectures. The reading is at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Room, Yale 
University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, Ct., and is free 
and open to the public. For more information, please contact Clara Gyorgyey 
at 203-785-6102 or 203-397-1479

On November 16, 2003, at the Hartford State House, Vivian Shipley was 
awarded the 2003 Connecticut Book Award for Poetry from the Library of 
Congress' Center for the Book for her book When There Is No Shore. When 
There Is No Shore also won the 2002 Word Press Poetry Prize and was 
nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Shipley, the Connecticut State University 
Distinguished Professor, is the Editor of Connecticut Review and a 
Professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University. In 2003, she 
won the Hart Crane Poetry Prize from Kent State University, the National 
League of American Pen Women DeAnn Lubell Poetry Prize and was awarded a 
Connecticut Commission of the Arts Grant. She has also won the Lucille 
Medwick Award from The Poetry Society of America, the Ann Stanford Prize 
from the University of Southern California, the Robert Frost Foundation 
Poetry Award, the Marble Faun Award for Poetry from the William Faulkner 
Society, the Daniel Varoujan Award from The New England Poetry Club, and 
the Reader's Choice Award from Prairie Schooner. She lives in North Haven, 
Connecticut with her husband, Ed Harris.


Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The 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
Fax: 203.432.4047
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