[Yale-readings] Rodrigo Toscano and Elizabeth Willis Reading at Beinecke February 22, 4 pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

YALE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN LITERATURE READING SERIES

Please join us for a poetry reading by poets Rodrigo Toscano and Elizabeth 
Willis on Tuesday, February 22, at 4:00 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.ed

Rodrigo Toscano is the author of To Leveling Swerve, Platform, The 
Disparities, and Partisans. His work has recently appeared in Best American 
Poetry, 2004 and War and Peace.  His poetry has been translated into 
French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. He was recently a 
participant in "Poetry & Empire, Post-Invasion Poetics" at the University 
of Pennsylvania,  "Societies of American Poetry: Dissenting Practices" at 
Georgetown University, and "Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics 
and Cultural Displacement" at the University of California, Irvine. Toscano 
is originally from California (San Diego & San Francisco). He lives in New 
York City.

Elizabeth Willis is the author of Turneresque, The Human Abstract, winner 
of the National Poetry Series, and Second Law. Willis has been awarded a 
California Arts Council Fellowship, a Howard Foundation Fellowship for 
Poetry and she has held residencies in the graduate programs at Brown 
University, the Naropa Institute, University of Denver, and Mills College. 
With Rodrigo Toscano, she was recently a panelist at Georgetown 
University's  "Societies of American Poetry: Dissenting Practices." She 
currently teaches at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.


For information about and examples of Rodrigo Toscano's work visit:
<http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/toscano/>http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/toscano/
http://www.krupskayabooks.com/toscano.htm
http://jacketmagazine.com/28/schw-tosc.html

For information about and examples of Elizabeth Willis's work visit:
<http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/willis/>http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/willis/
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/v1_2_1999/current/new-writing/willis.html
http://www.webdelsol.com/Double_Room/issue_three/Elizabeth_Willis.html



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