[Yale-readings] Tues. 2/16: an Evening Inspired by Wallace Stevens

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Ordinary Evening Reading Series Presents
Poets from Poets From the Anthology
Visiting Wallace: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Wallace Stevens
at the Anchor Bar, New Haven
Tuesday, February 16th, 7 PM

Join us 7PM on Tuesday, February 16th, in the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room, 272 College Street in New Haven, for poems inspired by Wallace Stevens and selected from the new anthology Visiting Wallace: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Wallace Stevens (University of Iowa, 2009).

Suppose these houses are composed of ourselves,
So that they become an impalpable town, full of
Impalpable bells, transparencies of sound. . . .

- from "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" by Wallace Stevens

Dennis Barone's recent books are Precise Machine and North Arrow both from Quale Press. In 2006 he edited Furnished Rooms (Bordighera Press), poems by early twentieth-century poet Emanuel Carnevali.  He has published a selected poems, Separate Objects (Left Hand Books, 1998), and in 1997 he received the America Award in fiction for Echoes. He is Director of American Studies at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut.

Richard Deming is a poet and a theorist who works on the philosophy of literature. His poems have appeared in such places as Sulfur, Field, Indiana Review, and Mandorla, as well as Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present. His book of poems is Let's Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman), With Nancy Kuhl, he edits Phylum Press. He is a lecturer at Yale University and the author of Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford).

James Finnegan has published poems in Ploughshares, Poetry East, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review & other literary magazines. He started an internet discussion list related to contemporary poetry called New-Poetry. He cofounded the web-radio project LitStation.com and he posts aphoristic musings to ursprache, a poetics blog. He lives in West Hartford, CT, and works as an insurance underwriter of financial institutions risk.

Susan Howe is the author of several books including Souls of the Labadie Tract (New Directions, 2007), The Midnight (2003), Kidnapped (2002), The Europe of Trusts: Selected Poems (2002), Peirce-Arrow (1999), Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979 (1996). Her books of criticism are The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History (1993), which was named an "International Book of the Year" by the Times Literary Supplement, and My Emily Dickinson (1985).

Clare Rossini's second collection, Lingo, was released from the University of Akron Press in 2006. Her first full-length collection, Winter Morning with Crow, was selected for the 1996 Akron Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, as well as in textbooks and anthologies, including Poets for the New Century, An Introduction to Poetry and Best American Poetry. Rossini is currently on the faculty of Trinity College in Hartford and the MFA program at Vermont College in Montpelier, VT.

Next reading is March 23! We welcome novelist Susan Barr-Toman, author of When Love Was Clean Underwear, and Boston Globe "Miss Conduct" etiquette columnist Robin Abrahams.

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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