<div dir="ltr"><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-63ec63ee-7fff-60d8-919f-c7b5288ca558"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">April is a time for rhythm, rhyme, and raw expression! Join us as we celebrate </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">National Poetry Month</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> with a daily poem AND think about attending or performing at the English Department and Learning Center’s </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Open Mic Poetry Reading</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (also sponsored by CAS and The Plattsburgh Alumni Association)!</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">When: April 30th, 4:00 p.m.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Where: Krinovitz Recital Hall</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Who: You! </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Sign up here: </span><a href="https://forms.gle/yUUKMc6kjZFavhwFA" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Open Mic Poetry Reading</span></a><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></font></font></span></div><div><span><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Poem of the Day: </span></font></span></div><div><span><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Suppose You Were a Moray Eel" 
by Aimee </span></font><span style="background:0px 0px;color:rgb(42,43,32);letter-spacing:-0.02em;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px">Nezhukumatathil</span></font></div><div><span style="background:0px 0px;color:rgb(42,43,32);letter-spacing:-0.02em;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;letter-spacing:-0.02em;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:normal">when ancient Romans kept glass aquariums filled to bubbling with your</span><br style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="letter-spacing:normal">brothers and old Licinius Muraena himself loved to throw slaves in the water,</span><br style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="letter-spacing:normal">where men were stripped to bits. You cannot help it—it’s in your blood.</span><br style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="letter-spacing:normal">Witches wear dresses made of your skin, sleek and gleaming. Don’t you see</span><br style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="letter-spacing:normal">how they preen whenever they pass a mirror? In the Ozark mountains, I</span><br style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="letter-spacing:normal">met a man who swears cooked eels turn raw if they are left uneaten and so</span><br style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="letter-spacing:normal">everyone—even children—eat them quickly. They don’t want to feel the slip</span><br style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="letter-spacing:normal">and bite under bed sheets that night. You move me. You move me </span><i style="background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;letter-spacing:normal">anguillform</i><br style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="letter-spacing:normal">and backwards, zipping through the sea with only a quick-stop for shrimp</span><br style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="letter-spacing:normal">and other creepy crawlies. Your acorn heart sees the future—does it hold a</span><br style="letter-spacing:normal"><em style="background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;letter-spacing:normal">Valentine, Be Mine!</em><span style="letter-spacing:normal"> or a glassy, spectacular car crash? I am mostly blind, like you.</span><br style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="letter-spacing:normal">Let us wait here in this coral cave and count the number of smelt that swim</span><br style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="letter-spacing:normal">by. Let them go, all of them. Wait instead for what your thin veins forecast,</span><br style="margin-bottom:0px;letter-spacing:normal"><span style="letter-spacing:normal">what they decide to pulse for and where.</span></font></span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#2a2b20"></font></span></div><div><span><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></span></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;font-size:12px;display:inline-block;line-height:18px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;font-weight:bold;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:14px">REGAN LEVITTE<span style="background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;margin-bottom:0px;font-weight:normal;font-size:0.9em">, M.A. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word">(she/her/they)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word">Assistant Director & Writing Specialist</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;padding:0px;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Claude J. Clark Learning Center
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