[Yale-readings] Graduate Poets Reading Series: Meghan O'Rourke & Ben Purkert, 4/22, 4:30pm, LC 317

[Kuhl, Nancy]

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Dear friends and colleagues:

The Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series is thrilled to announce its upcoming reading, celebrating National Poetry Month, on Monday, April 22, at 4:30pm in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 317, with two marvelously talented poets: Meghan O'Rourke, incoming editor of The Yale Review and author of three collections of poetry, most recently Sun in Days (W. W. Norton & Company, 2017), and the memoir The Long Goodbye (Riverhead Books, 2011), and Ben Purkert, author of For the Love of Endings (Four Way Books, 2018).

Meghan O'Rourke is the author of the collections Sun in Days, Halflife, and Once, as well as a memoir, The Long Goodbye. A former editor at The New Yorker, she has served as culture editor and literary critic for Slate, poetry editor for the Paris Review, and is currently the editor of The Yale Review. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Poetry, the New Republic, and Poetry, among others. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, and other awards, she lives in Brooklyn.

Ben Purkert is the author of For the Love of Endings (Four Way Books, 2018). His poems appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Tin House Online, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. A contributing editor at Guernica, he is the founder of Back Draft, an interview series focused on poets and revision. He currently teaches at Rutgers.

We'll have copies of Sun in Days and For the Love of Endings available for purchase at the reading.

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We look forward to having you join us for this very special occasion!

Warm wishes,
Brandon Menke, Marcus Alaimo, & Kate Needham

Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series | Contemporary Poetry Colloquium

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