[Yale-readings] Richard Deming and Nancy Kuhl read Tues. 2/26, 7pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

>ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES PRESENTS
>POETS RICHARD DEMING AND NANCY KUHL
>Tuesday, February 26, 7pm
>
>
>Join us for an unconventional Valentine's Day celebration with a reading 
>from poets (and married couple) Richard Deming and Nancy Kuhl on Tuesday, 
>February 26, 7pm, at the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room (downstairs), 272 
>College Street at Chapel.
>
>       Choose this place, its dogged vacancies
>                                              and when someone walks in, 
> here begins:
>       the distance pressed, the minute before grew an inch,
>       now closer in--arms and legs shoot out so
>                                              the body is an x, a beckoning.
>                                  How's that for sincerity?...
>
>              - from "Rooms (1)" by Richard Deming
>
>
>      I am. I am. Falling. Like the downward
>      stroke of a paintbrush, like a river turned
>      cataract. People who fall
>
>      find each other by bends where
>      bones didn't heal right, by scabs,
>      by swellings and scars...
>           - from "Pyramid" by Nancy Kuhl
>
>
>Richard Deming is a poet and a theorist who works on the philosophy of 
>literature. His first book of poems is Let's Not Call It Consequence 
>(Shearsman, 2008). He is also the author of Listening on All Sides: 
>Towards an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford University Press, 2008). 
>With Nancy Kuhl he edits <http://www.phylumpress.com/>Phylum Press.
>
>Nancy Kuhl is the author of the full-length poetry collection The Wife of 
>the Left Hand (Shearsman Books, 2007). Her chapbook, In the Arbor, was 
>winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published by Kent State 
>University Press. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Verse, Fence, 
>Phoebe, Puerto del Sol, Cream City Review, The Journal, and other magazines.
>
>She is co-editor of <http://www.phylumpress.com/>Phylum Press, a small 
>poetry publisher, and Associate Curator of the Yale Collection of American 
>Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale 
>University, where she curates the Yale Collection of American Literature 
>Reading Series. She is the author of two exhibition catalogs, Intimate 
>Circles: American Women in the Arts and Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van 
>Vechten's Portraits of Women, which are distributed by the University 
>Press of New England.
>
>Ordinary Evening's Spring 2008 lineup features both established and 
>emerging writers: journalist Jack Hitt and novelist Rachel Pastan (3/25); 
>writers from the "Mr. Wrong" Anthology, Ann Hood and Dana Kinstler (4/29); 
>and novelist Wally Lamb with poet Jason Shinder (5/20).  Please join us!
>
>Read writers' biographies, find links, send us an email, and more at 
><http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/>http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/.
>
>ABOUT THE ORDINARY EVENING SERIES
>Started in spring 2005, Ordinary Evening features 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 in the Elm City to enjoy a little written word on a 
>work-night.  Readings are always on a Tuesday at 7pm, free of charge, both 
>drinkers and teetotalers welcome.
>###
>
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