[Yale-readings] Fwd: Goff Owen, Jr. at Yale Bookstore, November 4

[Nancy Kuhl]

>From: "Richard G. Carlson" <crc-events at snet.net>
>To: "Yale Readings" <nancy.kuhl at yale.edu>
>Subject: Goff Owen, Jr. at Yale Bookstore, November 4
>Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:10:22 -0400
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>Contact:       Richard G. Carlson, Events Coordinator
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>Yale Bookstore
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>(203) 777-8440 (Ext. 165)
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>The Yale Bookstore s November Poetry Night
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>Features Works by Goff Owen
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>What:              Goff Owen, Jr. reading from his edited edition of his 
>father s work, Drumfire in Letters, Poetry, and Prose by Goff Owen
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>When:             Thursday, November 4, 2004 at 7:00 p.m.
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>Where:            The Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway, New Haven, CT
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>About Poetry Night:  The first Thursday of each month is Poetry Night at 
>The Yale Bookstore.  One or more featured poets will read from their work 
>after which there will be an Open Mic during which audience members may 
>read original poetry or favorite poems by others.  Poetry Nights will 
>start at 7:00 p.m. and close at 8:30 p.m.  The first Poetry Night will be 
>October 7, when Tony Fusco will be the guest of The Yale Bookstore.
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>  About The Book:  In Drumfire in Letters, Poetry, and Prose, Goff Owen 
> evokes the true spirit of rural life on the plateau overlooking the 
> Tennessee River of northeastern Alabama in the years preceding and during 
> the First World War.  The boy becomes a young man, enlisting in the Coast 
> Artillery of the military service, is sent overseas, and serves in France 
> as a radio sergeant.  Devastated by the death of his mother in the 
> influenza epidemic of 1918, he returns after the war to the little farm 
> on The Mountain, at Section, Alabama, a few miles distant from Scottsboro.
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>About The Author and Editor: was born in Buford, Georgia in 1893.  As a 
>young boy, he moved with his family to Section, Alabama.  His son, Goff 
>Owen, Jr. ((Mus B.A, Yale 57), edited the present work.  Goff Owen, Jr. 
>also holds a master s degree from the University of Minnesota (1962), a 
>Certificate NDEA from Princeton (1967) and Chartered Life Underwriter from 
>The American College (1983).
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>About the Yale Bookstore:
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>The Yale Bookstore, a Barnes and Noble College Bookstore is located at 77 
>Broadway at York Square, New Haven, CT, 06511, (203) 777-8440, 
>www.yalebookstore.com.  The bookstore offers a wide selection of 
>bestsellers, titles by Yale and local authors, Yale course books and 
>emblematic merchandise, dorm supplies, gifts, stationery and Clinique 
>products.  The Yale Bookstore Cafe serves Java U Coffee and snacks.
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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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