[Yale-readings] 12/15, 7pm: April Bernard and Jude Stewart

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Ordinary Evening Reading Series Presents
April Bernard and Jude Stewart
at the Anchor Bar, New Haven
Tuesday, December 15th, 7 PM

Start making merry early with us as we enjoy readings from Guggenheim-winning poet April Bernard and nonfiction writer (and OE co-curator) Jude Stewart 7PM on Tuesday, December 15th, in the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room, 272 College Street in New Haven.

. . . .a tree, a smallish maple,
fire-gold and half-undone by the wind,
shaking in itself,
shocking blue morning sky behind, and also
the trucks and telephone wires and dogs
and children late to school along Orange Street, but
it was the tree that caused an uproar,
it was the tree that shook and shed,
aureate as a shaken soul, I remembered
I was supposed to have one--
--from "Beagle or Something", in Romanticism, by April Bernard

Color is a daily mystery we all swim in. In the cartoon strip of everyday life, panel after panel is crammed with colored objects, every blank outline shaded in: pencils, subways, umbrellas, ties, cherries, leaves, smoke. Color is so ubiquitous, it's invisible - until suddenly, it's not. To be startled by color lifts a scrim, behind which teems the alienness of the world.

--from a forthcoming book about color by Jude Stewart

April Bernard is an author and teacher from Bennington, VT. She teaches at Bennington College and at Skidmore College in New York.

Romanticism, April's most recent poetry collection, was published in June 2009. Her prior publications include three books of poetry: Swan Electric, Psalms, and Blackbird Bye Bye, and one novel, Pirate Jenny. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Boston Review, Agni, Ploughshares, Parnassus, and The New York Review of Books and is included in The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English and By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry. She has also received a Guggenheim Award.
Jude Stewart has written on design, art and culture for Slate, the Believer, I.D., Metropolis, BusinessWeek, Nextbook and Print, as well as a column on color for STEP Inside Design Magazine which she is developing into a book. She has lectured about design at RISD, the Adult Education series in Brooklyn, and the Fachhochschule Mainz in Germany and been interviewed on related topics on NPR's Day to Day and by Brian Lehrer on WNYC. Her introduction to mobile architecture appears in More Mobile: Portable Architecture Today (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008).
Jude divides her time between Berlin, Germany, and New Haven, where she is also co-curator of the Ordinary Evening Reading Series. Read more at www.judestewart.com<https://email.hbs.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=e1bd696f19d04a9ba6811d907f05b01b&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.judestewart.com%2f> or follow her daily tweets on color at twitter.com/joodstew<https://email.hbs.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=e1bd696f19d04a9ba6811d907f05b01b&URL=http%3a%2f%2ftwitter.com%2fjoodstew>.
Get ready for spring! Our first reading will be January 19. The Ordinary Evening Reading Series presents readings by poets, novelists, and non-fiction writers. We welcome drinkers and teetotalers alike and hope you can join us for what the New Haven Independent called "one of those unofficial civic ventures that make New Haven such a vibrant place."
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