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WPI Poets:  Featuring Alumnus Gerald Yelle
We are excited to welcome our first poetry reading by a WPI alum, Gerald Yelle. Yelle's books include The Holyoke Diaries(Future Cycle, 2014),Dreaming Alone and with Others(Future Cycle, 2023),the boredandEvolution for the Hell of It(Alien Buddha, 2025). His chapbooks includeNo Place I Would Rather Be(Finishing Line, 2021) andA Box of Rooms(Bottlecap, 2022). Yelle will be reading from his work in the Gordon Library Conference Room (Room 303). The event will begin with a few readings from current WPI students. There will also be time for conversation with our poets about their experiences and practices.\nFrom Yelle's publisher's biographical statement,"Gerald Yelle received his MFA from the University of Massachusetts. He has published poetry and flash fiction in numerous online and print journals in addition to four books:
  The Holyoke Diaries, Future Cycle Press (2014), Evolution For The Hell Of
  It, Red Dashboard LLC (2015), Mark My Word and the New World Order, Pedes
 trian Press (2016), and Restaurant in Walking Distance and Everything, Caw
 ing Crow Press (2016). An e-chapbook, “Industries Built on Words,” was
  published by Yavanika Press in 2020. He has done restaurant work, factory
  work, office work and public school teaching. He is a member of the Flore
 nce, Massachusetts Poets Society and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts."\nMo
 re event details and an announcement are forthcoming. \n
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