[Yale-readings] Tonight - poet George Bradley reads at Central

[Nancy Kuhl]

>CCSU Poetry Reading
>featuring George Bradley
>Tuesday, May 4th, 7:30 pm
>Founder's Hall in Davidson
>New Britain, CT 06050
>free and open to the public
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>George Bradley was born in Roslyn, New York in 1953.  He was educated at 
>Yale University and the University of Virginia.  He won the Yale Younger 
>Poets Prize for 1985, and his first book (Terms to Be Met) was published 
>as part of that series in 1986.  His other books of verse are: Of the 
>Knowledge of Good and Evil (1991), The Fire Fetched Down (1996), and Some 
>Assembly Required (2001), all from Knopf. Bradley is also the editor of 
>The Yale Younger Poets Anthology (Yale University Press, 1998).  Among the 
>awards Bradley has received are the Witter Bynner Prize (from the American 
>Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters), The Peter I. B.  Lavin Award 
>(from the Academy of American Poets), an Ingram Merrill prize, and a grant 
>from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Bradley's poetry has 
>appeared in many periodicals, including: The New Yorker, The New Republic, 
>The Paris Review, Poetry, the American Poetry Review, Verse (U.S.A. and 
>U.K.), Spazio Umano (Italy), and America Illustrated (distributed in 
>Russia).  He has read his work at many venues, including the 92nd St."Y" 
>in New York City, the Lannan Foundation (then in Los Angeles) and the 
>Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.).  He has taught a writing seminar 
>at Yale University, been a visiting poet at the University of Utah at Salt 
>Lake, and lectured on poetry (Milton) at Columbia University.  George 
>Bradley lives with his wife and child in Chester, Connecticut.
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>Ravi Shankar
>Poet-in-Residence
>Assistant Professor
>CCSU - English Dept.
>860-832-2766
>shankarr at ccsu.edu

Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
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