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Thank you, ma'am.

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Mona Van Duyn.

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Honors include a Bollingen
Prize, a National Book Award,

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Guggenheim Fellowship,
and National Endowment

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for the Arts grant.

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Her books include Valentines
to the Wide World, poems,

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"A Time of Bees,"
"To See, To Take,"

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"Bedtime Stories," and
"Merciful Disguises."

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From 1947 until just
recently, she and her husband,

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Jarvis Thurston, have
co-edited Perspective:

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A Quarterly of
Literature in their home

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in St. Louis, Missouri.

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We're very happy to have
Mona Van Duyn with us.

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[APPLAUSE]

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