Poetry at Beinecke Library

FALL 2008 READINGS

Carson Cistulli, Poetry Reading

Friday, October 3, 6pm
Location TBA (NOTE: this event will not take place at Beinecke Library)
Co-sponsored by the Graduate Poets Reading Series and the
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Contact: david.gorin@yale.edu

Carson Cistulli’s first full length collection of poetry was recently published by Casa Grande Press. Cistulli received his MFA from the University of Massachusetts; he also attended Columbia University in New York, where he studied with Kenneth Koch, and the University of Montana, from which he graduated with a BA in Classical Civilization. His work has appeared in: Cold Drill, canwehaveourballback, and Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books.

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Young African American Poets: A Celebration of New Writing
Poetry Readings by Evie Shockly, Douglas Kearney,
and Amaud Jamal Johnson

Tuesday, October 28, 4pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Co-sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature
Reading Series and New Ideas in African American Studies
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Evie Shockley is the author of a chapbook, The Gorgon Goddess (2001), and the collection a half-red sea (2006). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Fascicle, Hambone, HOW2, and Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry, and other journals and anthologies. She is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University. Douglas Kearney is a poet, performer, and teacher. His work has appeared in Callaloo, jubilat, Ninth Letter, and other journals. His first full-length collection of poetry, Fear, Some, was published in October 2006. Amaud Jamaul Johnson is a former Wallace E. Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His poems have appeared in New England Review, Poetry Daily, From the Fishouse, and other journals. He teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His first book, Red Summer, was the winner of the 2004 Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press.

Past Events

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