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Thank you very much, Jonathan.

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Called by the Bloomsbury Review,
one of the most insightful

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and spirited poets today.

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Pamela Uschuk is the author of
five volumes of poetry, Crazy

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Love, Finding Peaches in the
Desert, One Legged Dancer,

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Scattered Risks and Without
The Comfort Of Stars.

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She is editor in chief
of the Literary Magazine

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Cutthroat, a journal
of the arts and I

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happen to know she's also
a wonderful and very much

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loved teacher of poetry at the
Fort Lewis College in Durango

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Colorado and at the Poetry
Center among other places.

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Before we hear
from Pamela, I just

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wanted to read you a
few words about her work

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by poet, novelist, anthologist
Naomi Shihab Nye.

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Life lived at the fever
pitch of awareness and care,

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intensely present eye
and voice to ripped out

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rooms, distant battles,
vivid landscapes,

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succulent soil cupped in
the fist and loves unending.

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Pamela Uschuk moves at
eloquent passionate depth

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through the glories and
pleasures of our haunted days.

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Please join me in
welcoming Pamela.

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