[Yale-readings] TOMORROW: Hayes and Jackson Reading at Beinecke

[Nancy Kuhl]

Please join us for poetry readings by Terrance Hayes and Major Jackson on 
Thursday, February 1st, 2007, 4pm. This event is co-sponsored by the 
African American Studies Department. The poets will be introduced by Yale 
University graduate students Erica Levy and Andrew Nurkin. 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 visit 
http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/2006-2007-readings-at-beinecke/. For 
additional information about poetry at the Beinecke Library visit: 
http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/.

Terrance Hayes is the author of Hip Logic, Muscular Music, and most 
recently, Wind in a Box. He has been awarded a Whiting Writers Award, the 
Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a National Poetry Series award, a Pushcart 
Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Major Jackson is 
the author of two collections of poetry, Hoops and Leaving Saturn, winner 
of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book 
Critics Circle Award. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and has 
been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner 
Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. Major Jackson is an 
Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont and a faculty 
member of the Bennington Writing Seminars.

For more information about and examples of Terrance Hayes's and Major 
Jackson's work visit:

Terrance Hayes
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/437
http://www.pitt.edu/~nidus/archives/winter2005/current/hayes.html
http://www.jubilat.org/n6/hayes.html

Major Jackson
http://www.majorjackson.com/
http://www.pewarts.org/95/Jackson/
http://www.cavecanempoets.org/pages/poems/oregon.html


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