[Yale-readings] Ordinary Evening Reading Series: Tuesday 11/3, 7pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

>
>ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES
>WELCOMES JUDITH BAUMEL AND MARTHA COOLEY
>Tuesday, November 13, 7-8pm
>
>The Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room (downstairs)
>272 College Street at Chapel, (203) 865-1512
>
>
>
>  "About that head scarf I saw fluttering brightly
>in a bright room across the distance
>
>of corridors as if it were a movie or a strong
>dream.. ."
>  – Judith Baumel, from her poem "Monumental Grief"
>
>
>"Think of me as real..."
>  – Martha Cooley, from the opening line of her novel Thirty-Three Swoons
>
>
>Judith Baumel is a poet, critic and translator. She is Associate Professor 
>of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Adelphi 
>University. A former director of the Poetry Society of America, her books 
>of poetry are
>The Weight of Numbers for which she won the Walt Whitman Award from the 
>Academy of American Poets, and Now. Her poetry, translations and essays 
>have been published in
>Poetry, The Yale Review, The New York Times, and
>The New Yorker.
>
>Martha Cooley is the author of
>The Archivist, a national bestseller, and Thirty-Three Swoons (both 
>published by Little, Brown). Her short fiction and essays have appeared in
>A Public Space, AGNI, Washington Square, and elsewhere. She teaches 
>fiction in the Bennington Writing Seminars and is a member of the English 
>Department at Adelphi University.
>
>
>MARK YOUR CALENDARS
>This season's lineup offers an eclectic mix of poetry, fiction, 
>non-fiction and drama from local and further-flung writers.  The final 
>reading of the Fall season, on Tuesday, December 11, will present novelist 
>Tom Gavin and playwright Robert Ackerman. For biographies, links to work, 
>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 Mermaid Room, downstairs. Borrowing its 
>name from the 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 storytelling on a work-night. 
>Readings are always on a Tuesday at 7pm, free of charge, both drinkers and 
>teetotalers welcome.
>
>
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