[Yale-readings] Readings at Atticus

[Nancy Kuhl]

>In celebration of National Poetry Month, Atticus Bookstore and Café will 
>host a reading of four distinguished poets on Friday, April 27 at 7 p.m. 
>The reading is downstairs. The featured poets are:
>
>Marilyn Nelson, a University of Connecticut professor, who from 2001 until 
>March 2007 was the Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut. She has been 
>a finalist three times for the National Book Award, has received two 
>fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and has won the 
>Poets' Prize.
>
>Vivian Shipley, a Connecticut State University distinguished professor, 
>editor of Connecticut Review, nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize, and 
>winner of the World Press Poetry Prize and the Lifetime Achievement Award 
>from the Connecticut Center for the Book.
>
>Rennie McQuilkin, co-founder of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, 
>received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the 
>Connecticut Commission on the Arts, published in The Atlantic Monthly, 
>Yale Review, Poetry, and The American Scholar.
>
>Karen Chase, a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Rockefeller 
>Foundation's Bellagio Center, she was for over a decade poet in residence 
>at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, teaching poetry writing 
>to psychiatric patients; now a trustee for the Amy Clampitt Fund. 
>Published in the New Yorker, The New Republic and The Gettysburg Review.
>
>
>Also, as part of the bookstore’s month-long “bread for poems” event, 
>anyone who wishes is invited to come into the bookstore anytime Friday to 
>read a poem aloud in exchange for a free loaf of artisan bread made by 
>Chabaso Bakery. The bookstore in downtown New Haven, 1082 Chapel St., is 
>open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. (203) 562-9007
>

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