[Yale-readings] April 1, 7pm: James Longenbach Reading

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Poetry Reading by James Longenbach
Thursday April 1, 7pm
Linsly-Chittenden Rm. 319, 63 High St, New Haven
Free and Open to the Public
Contact: Yale English Department, (203) 432-2233


James Longenbach, Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester, and a distinguished poet and critic, will give a lecture and a poetry reading this coming Thursday, April 1, at Yale Univeristy.  Longenbach is the author of four books of poems, including /Fleet River/, /Draft of a Letter/, and /Threshold/, as well as critical books on Pound, Eliot, Yeats, and Stevens, an overview of twentieth-century American poetry called /Modern Poetry After Modernism/, and two books of poetics (/The Resistance to Poetry/ and /The Art of the Poetic Line/).



Longenbach's lecture, entitled "The Art of Writing Badly," is sponsored by the Twentieth-/Twenty-First Century Colloquium in the English Department.  It will be held in LC 319 at 4pm;  his reading, introduced by Louise Gluck, will follow in LC 317 at 7.

Both events are free and open to the public.



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