[Yale-readings] TOMORROW: Poetry Reading, William Heyen 10-13, 4 pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

Please join us for a poetry reading by William Heyen tomorrow, Wednesday, 
October 13, 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.

William Heyen is the author of more than fifteen books of poetry including 
Depth of Field (1970), The Swastika Poems (1977), Long Island Light: Poems 
and a Memoir (1979), Lord Dragonfly (1981), Pterodactyl Rose: Poems on 
Ecology (1991), Ribbons: The Gulf War (1991), The Host: Selected Poems 
1965-1990 (1994), Crazy Horse in Stillness (1996), winner of 1997's Small 
Press Book Award for Poetry, and Shoah Train (2003). He has also written 
several books of prose, including: a memoir, With Me Far Away (1994); a 
novel, Vic Holyfield and the Class of 1957 (1986); and Pig Notes & Dumb 
Music: Prose on Poetry. Heyen is the editor of The Generation of 2000: 
Contemporary American Poets (1984) and September 11, 2001: American Writers 
Respond (2002). He has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 
Poetry, the Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize from Poetry magazine, the Witter 
Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and 
Letters, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

For information about William Heyen and to read examples of his work visit:

http://www.pshares.org/authors/featured.cfm?prmAuthorID=693
http://www.poems.com/pignohe2.htm
http://exit-online.port5.com/billh.htm
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/heyen-hol-songs.html

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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