[Yale-readings] 9-27 at 4pm -- Nicole Sealey, Poetry Reading at Beinecke Library

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Nicole Sealey, Poetry Reading
Thursday, September 27, 4:00 PM
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Contact: nancy.kuhl at yale.edu<mailto:nancy.kuhl at yale.edu>

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>From nicolesealey.com<http://nicolesealey.com/>: Born in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. and raised in Apopka, Florida, Nicole Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast<https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062688804/ordinary-beast>, finalist for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named<http://www.greenlightbookstore.com/book/9780810133129>, winner of the 2015 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her other honors include a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review, a Daniel Varoujan Award and the Poetry International Prize, as well as fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, CantoMundo, Cave Canem, MacDowell Colony and the Poetry Project. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times and elsewhere. Nicole holds an MLA in Africana studies from the University of South Florida and an MFA in creative writing from New York University. She is the executive director at Cave Canem Foundation, visiting professor at Boston University and the 2018-2019 Doris Lippman Visiting Poet at The City College of New York.
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