[Yale-readings] Feb. 27, 8pm, LC 319: Graduate Poets Reading Series--Jennifer Nelson & Margaret Ross

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Dear colleagues:

We warmly invite you to a very special First Books reading by the marvelous Jennifer Nelson (GSAS '13) and Margaret Ross on Saturday, February 27, at 8:00pm in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 319. Jennifer and Margaret will be reading from their recently published first collections—Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife and A Timeshare, respectively. You will not want to miss this evening of exquisite verse, co-sponsored by WAVEMACHINE!

Jennifer Nelson's first book of poems, Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife, came out with Ugly Duckling Presse in Dec. 2015. She is a fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows and teaches in the art history department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Margaret Ross is the author of A Timeshare, selected by Timothy Donnelly for the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize. Her poems and translations appear or are forthcoming in A Public Space, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Fence, The New Republic and The New Yorker. Her honors include scholarships and fellowships form the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Fulbright Program, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Yaddo and Stanford, where she is currently a Stegner Fellow. More at margaret-ross.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__margaret-2Dross.com_&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=atmIqH8C3v6QTl7P0ptZhY2IqpSIbBKLuFH28cUIrlY&m=DbfbDTX6bLRYZpuIp0PonXSYdxnsDGMUuQ-Xvn7XBFY&s=CCOagEAf5tVwjWap0E932IZdwK64vHQ85fl-J-3eIAU&e=>.
We will have copies of Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife and A Timeshare available for purchase (cash/check only).
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Fondly and all best,
Brandon & Paul
Graduate Poets Reading Series | Contemporary Poetry Colloquium

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