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Sheila Murphy was born
in 1951 in Indiana,

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and is an American
text and visual poet,

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who has been writing and
publishing actively since 1978.

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She currently lives in Phoenix.

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She earned her BA degree
in music and English

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from Nazareth
College in Kalamazoo.

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Then she went on to receive
her MA in English Literature,

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English Language and
Literature from the University

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of Michigan, and then
later got her PhD

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in Educational Administration
and Supervision,

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with an emphasis on
Community Education from ASU.

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With Beverly Carver, Murphy
co-founded and coordinated

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the Scottsdale Center for
the Arts Poetry Series

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for 12 years.

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Murphy has engaged in a
broad range of poetic styles

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over nearly three decades
of writing and publication.

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Her recent works include
"Reverse Haibun",

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"Circumsanct",
"Quaternity", "how

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to spell the sound of
everything", and "Parsings".

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Please help me welcome Gerry
Connolly to the podium first.

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[APPLAUSE]

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