[Yale-readings] Connecticut Poetry Circuit

[Nancy Kuhl]

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>Connecticut Poetry Circuit-- Kim Bridgford
>
>The Connecticut Poetry Circuit is pleased to announce that Kim Bridgford 
>has been chosen as this year’s touring poet.  Bridgford will be meeting 
>classes and giving readings at colleges across the state.  All of her 
>readings are open to the public.
>
>Kim Bridgford has published three books of poetry: Undone, nominated for 
>the Pulitzer Prize; Instead of Maps, nominated for the Poets’ Prize; and 
>In the Extreme:  Sonnets about World Records, winner of the Donald Justice 
>Poetry Award.  Though best known as a poet--her work having been published 
>extensively in the U.S., Canada, and the UK­she is also a fiction writer 
>and critic.  She serves as editor of Dogwood and the online women’s 
>formalist magazine Mezzo Cammin. Bridgford has received grants from the 
>National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts 
>and was selected Connecticut Professor of the Year by the Carnegie 
>Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.  Kim Bridgford is a Professor 
>of English at Fairfield University.
>
>October 31                   8:00 p.m.           Wesleyan University
>Russell House, Millett Room
>Middletown, CT
>                                                             Joanna Tice, 
> <mailto:jtice at wesleyan.edu>jtice at wesleyan.edu
>
>The Connecticut Poetry Circuit was established in 1968 to continue the 
>work of the New England Poetry Circuit, which was established in 1964 at 
>the request of the Academy of American Poets.  The work of the Circuit is 
>guided by a panel of poets: Dick Allen, Vivian Shipley, Clare Rossini, and 
>Kate Rushin.  The Circuit is directed by James Gentile and Mariana 
>DiRaimo.  For additional information about the Connecticut Poetry Circuit 
>or these readings, please contact James Gentile at 
><mailto:jgentile at mcc.commnet.edu>jgentile at mcc.commnet.edu  or Mariana 
>DiRaimo at <mailto:mdiraimo1 at mcc.commnet.edu>mdiraimo1 at mcc.commnet.edu

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