[Yale-readings] REMINDER: Two Poetry Readings at CCSU this Week

[Nancy Kuhl]

>All Events are Free and Open to the Public
>and on the Central Connecticut State University campus
>1615 Stanley St., New Britain, CT 06050
>
>Tuesday, October 26th - 7:00 pm - Marcus White Living Room
>Leslie McGrath and Jim Scrimegour Leslie McGrath is the winner of the 2004 
>Pablo Neruda International Poetry Prize and has published poems in the 
>Connecticut Review, The Formalist, and Nimrod, among other journals. Jim 
>Scrimegour is the poet laureate of Western Connecticut State University 
>and highly regarded author of "Monet in the Twentieth Century" and 
>"Brushstrokes of the Millenium."
>
>Thursday, October 28th - 7:00 pm - Founder's Hall in Davidson
>Kurt Brown
>Kurt Brown was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up on Long Island and 
>in Connecticut where he attended the University of Connecticut. He spent 
>many years in Aspen, Colorado, where he founded the Aspen Writers' 
>Conference and edited a literary magazine, Aspen Anthology. His poems have 
>appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, 
>Harvard Review, Crazyhorse, and many other periodicals. He is the editor 
>of Drive, They Said: Poems about Americans and Their Cars, and Verse & 
>Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics, as well as a collection of 
>essays about science and mathematics, The Measured Word. With his wife, 
>poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar, he edited Night Out: Poems about Hotels, 
>Motels, Restaurants and Bars. He is also the editor of three collections 
>of lectures given at writers' conferences across America: The True 
>Subject, Writing It Down for James, and Facing the Lion. His two previous 
>collections, More Things in Heaven and Earth (2002) and Return of the 
>Prodigals (1999) were published by Four Way Books. He lives with his wife 
>in New York City

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