[Yale-readings] Ordinary Evening Reading Series starts anew Tues. 9/18

[Nancy Kuhl]

>ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES
>SWINGS WIDE THE DOORS AGAIN THIS FALL
>
>
>In the midst of back-to-school action, give yourself a break, too! The 
>Ordinary Evening reading series kicks off its autumn 2007 season on 
>Tuesday September 18 at 7pm with former Connecticut poet laureate Marilyn 
>Nelson and novelist and poet Sarah Pemberton Strong. As always, we're in 
>the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room (downstairs), 272 College Street at Chapel. 
>(203) 865-1512.
>
>Poet Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of twelve books and three 
>chapbooks. Her books have won many honors, including three finalist honors 
>for the National Book Award, the Poets' Prize, the Boston Globe/Hornbook 
>Award, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, one Newbery and two Coretta Scott 
>King honors, finalist honors for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the 
>American Scandinavian Society Translation Prize, and the Lion and the 
>Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry. Nelson is a 
>professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut; founder 
>and director of Soul Mountain Retreat, a small writers' colony; and the 
>Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut from 2001 through 2006.
>
>Sarah Pemberton Strong is the author of a novel, Burning the Sea, which 
>was on the Boston Globe Top 10 bestseller list in 2002. Her poetry has 
>appeared in The Southern Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Cream City 
>Review, Atlanta Review, The Sun and elsewhere. She teaches poetry 
>workshops at Arts and Literature Lab in New Haven and is currently 
>completing her second novel, The Fainting Room. Her website is 
><http://www.sarahpembertonstrong.com/>www.sarahpembertonstrong.com.
>
>MARK YOUR CALENDARS
>
>This season's lineup offers an eclectic mix of poetry, fiction, 
>non-fiction and drama from local and further-flung writers, including 
>Laura M. MacDonald and Amy Bloom (10/16); Judith Baumel and Martha Cooley 
>(11/13); and Robert Ackerman and Tom Gavin (12/11). For biographies, links 
>to poems and other information, visit 
><http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/>http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/.
>
>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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