[Yale-readings] Poet Peter Cole @ Arts+Literature Laboratory: Nov 17, 7 pm (please post and forward)

[nancy.kuhl at yale.edu]

WORD OF MOUTH, THE MONTHLY READING SERIES @ ARTS + LITERATURE LABORATORY
WELCOMES

PETER COLE

Friday, November 17 at 7pm

PETER COLE has published two collections of poetry, Rift and Hymns & Qualms.
What Is Doubled: Poems 1981-1998 was recently published in Great Britain.
Cole has published many volumes of translations from medieval and modern
Hebrew and Arabic, most recently, So What: New & Selected Poems, 1971-2005,
by Taha Muhammad Ali (Copper Canyon Press). The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew
Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 is forthcoming from
Princeton University Presss Lockert Library of Translation series. Cole has
received numerous awards for his work, including a TLS Translation Prize for
Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol and the MLA Translation Prize for
Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid (both Princeton), as well as fellowships
from the NEH, the NEA, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Winner of
the 2004 PEN-America Translation Award, for JAccuse, by Aharon Shabtai (New
Directions), he lives in Jerusalem, where he co-edits Ibis Editions, a
small-press dedicated to the publication of Levant-related literature. He is
currently a Franke Fellow at Yales Whitney Institute of the Humanities.

An open mic will start the evening.

For more information, please visit the website at www.allgallery.org
<http://www.allgallery.org/>  or call 203-671-5175.

Arts & Literature Laboratory ERECTOR SQUARE BUILDING 2, 319 PECK STREET, NEW
HAVEN, CT





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