[Yale-readings] New Haven poetry reading, this Tuesday, September 19

[nancy.kuhl at yale.edu]

Ordinary Evening Series this Tues, Sept 19 at Anchor Bar

The new season of the Ordinary Evening Reading Series kicks off with
Shanna Compton, Jennifer L. Knox, & Ada Limon

Ordinary Evening
Tuesdays, 7:00 p.m.
The Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room
272 College Street
New Haven, CT
(203) 865-1512
http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/

Please join us Tuesday, September 19, at 7:00 p.m. in the Anchor Bar's Mermaid
Room (downstairs) for the next installment of series, featuring the following
excellent poets:

Shanna Compton is the author of *Down Spooky* (poems, Winnow, 2005) and the
editor of *GAMERS* (essays on video games, Soft Skull, 2004). Her poems can be
found in Foursquare, Ping-Pong, the tiny, Tool, Abraham Lincoln,* and other
magazines, as well as in the anthologies The Best American Poetry 2005, The
Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, and Bowery Women.

Ada Limon is originally from Sonoma, California. Her first book, *lucky wreck,*
was the winner of the 2005 Autumn House Poetry Prize and her second book, *This
Big Fake World,* was the winner of the 2005 Pearl Poetry Prize and is due out in
the fall. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Jennifer L. Knox was born and raised in Lancaster, California, the largestcity
named Lancaster in the world. Her first book of poems, *A Gringo Like Me,* is
available on Soft Skull Press. She is a three-time contributor to The Best
American Poetry, and her work has appeared in Great American Prose Poems: from
Poe to Present. She is currently studying avian linguistics via
correspondence.




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