[Yale-readings] November 19: Claire Zoghb

[Kuhl, Nancy]

WORD OF MOUTH POETRY SERIES
Featuring Claire Zoghb

Thursday, November 19, 2009
6:30 PM

Doors Open at 6:30.  Reading starts at 7:00.
Please arrive a few minutes early to sign up for the reading.

The Institute Library
847 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT

Claire Zoghb's first full-length collection, Small House Breathing, won the 2008 Quercus Review annual competition.  A chapbook, Dispatches from Everest, is forthcoming from Pudding House Press.  Her work has appeared in Yankee, Connecticut Review, Connecticut River Review, Caduceus, CALYX, Saranac Review, Mizna: Prose, Poetry and Art Exploring Arab America, Natural Bridge, Quercus Review, in the anthologies Through A Child's Eyes: Poems and Stories About War and Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems.  Twice a Pushcart Prize nominee, Claire was the winner of the 2008 Dogwood annual poetry competition. She is a recipient of two Artist Fellowships from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, an Urban Artists Initiative grant, a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and has earned a certificate from the Amherst Writers and Artists Institute. She lives in New Haven, where she works as a graphic artist and book designer and teaches writing workshops for kids.

On the third Thursday of each month, Word of Mouth Poetry Series celebrates an eclectic mix of poetic voices. Free. Refreshments. Open mike. Outstanding featured readers. In a casual setting. Open to all members of the public and even others. For more information, please contactallwordofmouth at gmail.com<mailto:allwordofmouth at gmail.com> or mcguireschwartz at gmail.com<mailto:mcguireschwartz at gmail.com>. Get current information from our website, at the following link:

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