Reminder: Beinecke Event Today

[Nancy Kuhl <nancy.kuhl@YALE.EDU>]

 Please join us at the Beinecke Library today at 4 pm for a poetry
reading by Susan Howe. Yale University graduate student Nicholas Salvato
will introduce Howe. 

A reception will follow. This event is free
and open to the public.

For additional information please contact Nancy Kuhl at 432-2966 or
nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Poet and scholar Susan Howe is the author of numerous books of poetry,
including Pierce-Arrow (1999), The Nonconformist's Memorial
(1993), and Singularities (1990). A new book, The
Midnight, is forthcoming from New Directions in June 2003. Her
critical texts include The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in
American Literary History (1993), which the Times Literary
Supplement hailed as an “International Book of the Year,” and My
Emily Dickinson (1985). Howe’s many honors include two American Book
Awards from the Before Columbus Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and
a Stanford Institute of the Humanities Fellowship. She is a Chancellor of
The Academy of American Poetry and Distinguished Professor at the State
University of New York at Buffalo.

Please visit the following websites for more information about
Susan Howe and to read samples of her work:

http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/howe/
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=195
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/howe/howe.htm
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/my-emily.html

Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966 
Fax: 203.432.4047