[Yale-readings] Ordinary Evening Reading Series kicks off spring season: Tuesday 1/23, 7pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

>ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES
>RETURNS TO THE ANCHOR BAR
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>First Reading Tuesday, January 23, Features
>Poet April Bernard and Memoirist Roya Hakakian
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>  NEW HAVEN, CT, January 10, 2007 – The Ordinary Evening Reading Series 
> welcomes two award-winning writers, poet April Bernard and memoirist Roya 
> Hakakian, to kick off its spring season on Tuesday, January 23, 7pm at 
> the Anchor Bar Mermaid Room (downstairs), 272 College Street at Chapel.
>
>Ordinary Evening returns to the Anchor Bar after a successful fall season 
>with near-capacity audiences, an eclectic group of writers, cheers, 
>laughter, quiet excitement, and even a spontaneous open-mic performance by 
>poets in the audience.  "We are excited to be back at the Anchor and 
>delighted to have April Bernard and Roya Hakakian to open the series for 
>us," says co-curator Lucile Bruce.  "Together they will bring a mix of 
>genres, cultures, ideas, images and stories that will make for a great 
>evening."
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>April Bernard is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose most recent 
>collection of poems is Swan Electric.  Her poems have appeared in The New 
>Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Agni, The Southwest Review, and many 
>other magazines.  She has received the Walt Whitman Prize from the Academy 
>of American Poets, a Sidney Harmon Fellowship, and an award in poetry from 
>the Guggenheim Foundation.  April Bernard teaches literature and writing 
>at Bennington College in Vermont.  She will read from her forthcoming 
>collection, In a Stolen Boat.
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>Roya Hakakian's memoir Journey from the Land of No—about a girlhood in 
>revolutionary Iran—recently won the Connecticut Book Award; The Washington 
>Post called it a "moving narrative" that "swings from funny to sad."  She 
>is a former associate producer at CBS's 60 Minutes and a documentary 
>filmmaker, as well as the author of two acclaimed volumes of poetry in 
>Persian and a contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
>
>For biographies, links to poems and other information, visit 
><http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/>http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/.
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>ABOUT THE ORDINARY EVENING SERIES
>
>Started in spring 2005, the <http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/>Ordinary 
>Evening reading series features both emerging and established writers in a 
>monthly reading at the Anchor Bar & Restaurant, Mermaid Room, 
>downstairs.  Borrowing its name from the epic poem "An Ordinary Evening in 
>New Haven," by Wallace Stevens, the series aims to bring writers and 
>audiences together in a no-fuss, informal environment to enjoy a little 
>poetry and/or storytelling on a work-night.  Readings are always on a 
>Tuesday at 7pm and free of charge.
>--
><http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/>http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/
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