[Yale-readings] ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES

[Nancy Kuhl]

>AN ORDINARY EVENING
>READING SERIES
>RETURNS TO THE ANCHOR BAR
>
>Poets Vivian Shipley and Joshua Beckman in first '08 event
>
>NEW HAVEN, CT, January 8, 2008 – An Ordinary Evening in New Haven reading 
>series kicks off its winter/spring season with poets Vivian Shipley and 
>Joshua Beckman on Tuesday, January 22, 7pm, at the Anchor Bar's Mermaid 
>Room (downstairs), 272 College Street at Chapel.
>
>I. Make the paths neat with a slight curve. Leave at
>least an inch of snow. Aesthetics are important.
>
>II. Pack perpendicular walls of snow. Cross country
>ski through them to the gym. Snowshoe to work.
>
>III. Walk your dog.  Always hang a little whisk broom
>on your wrist. When you see yellow snow, remove it.
>
>–Vivian Shipley, from "Martha Stewart's Ten Commandments for Snow"
>
>
>Oh, atlas
>look
>you forgot my island.
>
>– Joshua Beckman, "Oh, atlas"
>
>
>Vivian Shipley is the Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor 
>and the editor of Connecticut Review from Southern Connecticut State 
>University.  She has published five chapbooks and her seventh book of 
>poems, Hardboot: Poems New & Old, (Southeastern Louisiana University 
>Press, 2005) won the 2006 Paterson Prize for Sustained Literary 
>Achievement and the 2006 Connecticut Press Club Prize for Best Creative 
>Writing.  She has won a vast number of prizes, and two of her poetry 
>collections have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.  In 2007, Shipley 
>was inducted into the University of Kentucky Distinguished Alumni Hall of 
>Fame.  Her new book of poetry, All of Your Messages Have Been Erased, is 
>forthcoming from Southeastern Louisiana University Press.
>
>Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut.  He is the author of 
>five books, including Shake and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: 
>Nice Hat. Thanks. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of 
>Beauty.  Beckman is an editor at Wave Books and has translated numerous 
>works of poetry and prose, including Poker by Tomaz Salamun, which was a 
>finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. He is also the 
>recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a 
>Pushcart Prize.  He lives in Seattle and New York.
>
>Ordinary Evening's Spring 2008 lineup features both established and 
>emerging writers: poets Nancy Kuhl and Richard Deming (2/26); 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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>
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