Thank you, ma'am.
Mona Van Duyn.
Honors include a Bollingen Prize, a National Book Award,
Guggenheim Fellowship, and National Endowment
for the Arts grant.
Her books include Valentines to the Wide World, poems,
"A Time of Bees," "To See, To Take,"
"Bedtime Stories," and "Merciful Disguises."
From 1947 until just recently, she and her husband,
Jarvis Thurston, have co-edited Perspective:
A Quarterly of Literature in their home
in St. Louis, Missouri.
We're very happy to have Mona Van Duyn with us.
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