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The 8 p.m. reading from “Halflife” will take place in Pennsylvania Hall¹s third-floor Lyceum. Reading from her debut book, Megan O¹Rourke is known for writing poetry that incorporates playful and energetic intelligence, varied aesthetics and self-expression. The reading is free and open to the public.

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O’Rourke is one of the brightest new voices in contemporary poetry and American culture. She grew up in Brooklyn, earned her bachelor’s degree from Yale in 1997 and that summer began her literary career at “The New Yorker,” first as an editorial assistant, then in 2000 as an editor. Since 2002 she has served as culture editor for “Slate,” and in 2005 was named co-poetry editor of “The Paris Review.” Her poems have appeared in “The New Yorker,” “The New Republic,” “The Yale Review” and “The New York Review of Books,” and her prose in “Poetry,” “Slate” and “The Los Angeles Times Book Review.”