[Yale-readings] TODAY: Poetry Reading at Beinecke / Wright & Gander 4 pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

Please join us for a poetry reading by C. D. Wright and Forrest Gander 
TODAY at 4 pm at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall 
Street. A reception will follow; this event is free and open to the public. 
For additional information about the Yale Collection of American Literature 
Reading Series please contact Nancy Kuhl at 432-2966 or nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.

C. D. Wright is the author of more than ten books of poetry. She has 
received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, 
the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the Lila Wallace-Reader's 
Digest Foundation, and the Bunting Institute. She is a Professor at Brown 
University. For information about and examples of Wright’s work visit:
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C01010C
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/cdwright/online_poems.htm
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/cdwright/johnson.htm

Forrest Gander’s six books of poetry include Torn Awake (2001) and Science 
& Steepleflower.  He is the editor of Mouth to Mouth: 12 Contemporary 
Mexican Women Poets (1993) and a translator of the work of Pura López 
Colomé and Jaime Saenz. His awards include two Gertrude Stein Awards for 
Innovative Writing.  Gander is Director of the Graduate Program in Literary 
Arts and Creative Writing at Brown University. For information about and 
examples of Gander’s work visit:
http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/99_00/ganderbio.html
http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=717
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/English/Writing/people/Forrest/


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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