[Yale-readings] Graduate Poets Reading Series: Jason Labbe, Monday 1/29, 6pm, LC 319

[Kuhl, Nancy]

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We are thrilled to invite you to our first Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series event of the semester: Monday, January 29, at 6pm in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 319, we will be joined by Jason Labbe, who will be reading from his new full-length collection Spleen Elegy (2017).  Jason will be joined by Lizzie Mundell Perkins, a Ph.D. student in English Literature.


Born in New Britain, Connecticut and raised by a machinist and a waitress, Jason Labbe earned his MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. He is the author of a full-length collection Spleen Elegy (2017) and a handful of chapbooks, including Blackwash Canal (2011) and Dear Photographer (2009). His poems and prose appear widely in such publications as Poetry magazine, Boston Review, A Public Space, Conjunctions, Colorado Review, and DIAGRAM. Labbe has taught writing at the University of Virginia, the University of Connecticut, and Southern Connecticut State University. Also a drummer and recording engineer, he has worked with many artists in New England and New York City. He splits his time between Bethany, Connecticut and Brooklyn, New York.

Lizzie Mundell Perkins is a first year Ph.D student in English at Yale who writes fiction and poetry. She completed her Bachelor's degree at St John's College, Oxford, and worked for a while at Oxford University Press, before moving to America to pursue research in formalism, realism, and Russian influence in the modernist novel. She has spent the last six months intrigued by transatlantic differences; something she is often asked about, and is still trying to find expression for. She is looking forward to sharing some of her recent poems, including one written for all her American friends.

We’ll have copies of Spleen Elegy available for purchase at the reading.

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We look forward to having you join us!

Warm wishes,
​Brandon Menke and Marcus Alaimo

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