[Yale-readings] Tues. 1/19, 7pm: Sheila Kohler and Lisa Siedlarz

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Ordinary Evening Reading Series Presents
Sheila Kohler and Lisa Siedlarz
at the Anchor Bar, New Haven
Tuesday, January 19th, 7 PM

Start fulfilling your New Year's resolution to have more literary fun by joining us for the celebrated novelist Sheila Kohler and the prize-winning poet Lisa Siedlarz at 7PM on Tuesday, January 19th, in the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room, 272 College Street in New Haven.

"He wakes to the scratching of a pencil against a page: a noise out of darkness. He lies quite still on his back, reaching out for sound. His ears have become wings, straining, stretching, carrying him away. The world comes to him only through sound, and there is precious little of that."
            from Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler


"Saying goodbye was like wrapping my arms
around these five foot swells
that crest and break where land rises as sharply
as the C-130s carrying you westward to Afghanistan.
The sea heaves wall after wall of water,
carrying sunlight across its curves before folding
in on itself, hiding the sparkle in an undertow."
            from I Dream My Brother Plays Baseball by Lisa Siedlarz


Sheila Kohler's most recent novel, Becoming Jane Eyre, has just been published by Viking, Penguin and was enthusiastically reviewed in the New York Times. She has written six other novels: The Perfect Place (1989) ; The House on R Street (1994); Cracks (1999); Children of Pithiviers (2001); Crossways (2004); and Bluebird or the Invention of Happiness (2007); and three collections of short stories: Miracles in America (1990); One Girl (1999); and Stories from Another World (2003).

Sheila has received the O.Henry Prize twice, along with the Open Voice Award, the Smart Family Foundation prize, and many others. In addition, she was a fellow at the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

An acclaimed instructor, Sheila has taught creative writing in many programs including the Bennington Writing Seminars, the West Side YMCA, and Columbia's program in Montolieu, France. She currently teaches at Princeton.

Lisa Siedlarz's debut poet collection, I Dream My Brother Plays Baseball, was published in 2009 by Clemson University Digital Press. Lisa holds a Masters in Fine Arts from Western Connecticut State University. She is the editor of Connecticut River Review and managing editor of Connecticut Review. She has won the John Holmes Poetry Prize and the Leo Connellan Award and was nominated for the 2009 Best New Poets Award. She also facilitated a 16-week writing workshop with Vietnam veterans and edited a collection of their work called The Season of Now. Lisa works for Southern Connecticut State University and lives in New Haven.

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