[Yale-readings] Cynthia Zarin and Phillip Lopate, 12/14 at 7pm

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Ordinary Evening Reading Series Presents
Cynthia Zarin and Phillip Lopate
at the Anchor Bar, New Haven
Tuesday, December 14, 7 PM

We're ringing out 2010 on a high note with readings from poet Cynthia Zarin and writer of fiction, essays and poetry Phillip Lopate on Tuesday, December 14th, in the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room, 272 College Street in New Haven.

"Like hearts marked out but not yet colored in,
Each of her feathers has a black edge,
as if an India-ink mantilla stretched

from uncleaved neck to her fantail. The pen,
homemade, spilled some darkness now and then.
She doesn't lack for suitors...."

- from "The Astronomical Hen" by Cynthia Zarin

"Say I am getting tired of working on a particular essay, which I had thought would take only a day and is now stretching into its second or third week; meanwhile the material, the flattened clay or beaten metal. . . is thinning under my hands.  At the same time, I see a possible solution, an intriguing glimmer in the distance that could, optimistically, function as an ending.  The fact that it does not resolve the problems that the piece has raised, but, instead, slips out of their grasp, makes a whacky diagonal run away from them possibly all to the good.  Readers should be left with some things to work out on their own (or so I tell myself).  I have a liberating elation of having pulled off a fast one. . . ."

- from "How Do You End An Essay?" by Phillip Lopate

Phillip Lopate was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943, and received a BA from Columbia in 1964, and a doctorate from the Union Graduate School in 1979. The most recent of his many books is At the End of the Day, a collection of his selected poems published in 2010. He has written prolifically in many genres: personal essay, novel, poetry, memoir, criticism, and biography, in addition to editing a number of anthologies. His essays, fiction, poetry, film and architectural criticism have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays , several Pushcart Prize annuals, The Paris Review, Harper's, Vogue, Esquire, Film Comment, Threepenny Review, Double Take, New York Times, Harvard Educational Review, Preservation, Cite, 7 Days, Metropolis, Conde Nast Traveler, and many other periodicals and anthologies.

Among Phillip's many awards are a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants.

After working with children for twelve years as a writer in the schools, he taught creative writing and literature at Fordham, Cooper Union, University of Houston, and New York University. He currently holds the John Cranford Adams Chair at Hofstra University, and also teaches in the MFA graduate programs at Columbia, the New School and Bennington.

Cynthia Zarin 's newest poetry collection is The Ada Poems, published in September. She has written three other books of poetry-The Watercourse, Fire Lyric, and The Swordfish Tooth-and five books for children. Born in New York City and educated at Harvard and Columbia, Cynthia is a longtime contributor to The New Yorker. Her recent articles include "An Enlarged Heart," an autobiographical essay on a child's sudden illness, which was selected for the 2004 "Best American Essays," and "Big Cheese," about the reincarnation of Murray's Cheese Shop, in Greenwich Village, which appeared in "Best Food Writing," in 2005. Cynthia's Profiles include "Not Nice: Maurice Sendak and the Perils of Childhood," which won a 2006 Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York, and "Seeing Things: The Art of Olafur Eliasson." "Green Dreams: A Queen, A Shipwreck, and the Mystery Behind a Rare Set of Jewels" won the 2006 Richard T. Liddicoat Award for Consumer National Reporting. She has also written for the New York Times, Architectural Digest, and Gourmet, where she is a contributing editor.

The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and winner of the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Cynthia teaches at Yale and lives in New York City.

Our spring 2011 season begins January 18th! We'll be enjoying a night of great science writing by Carl Zimmer and Annie Murphy Paul.

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