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The next poet comes
to us from Phoenix.

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She is Ramona Weeks, a native
Arizonan presently living

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in Phoenix.

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Her poetry has appeared in
most of the major literary

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quarterlies, including Yale
Review, Sewanee Review, Kenyon

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Review, Shenandoah, New Mexico
Quarterly, The Southwest

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Review.

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Her work was featured
in Best Poems of 1968

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and Best Poems of 1969.

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She was the recipient of a
$500 grant from the National

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Endowment for the Arts
for a poem reprinted

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in the new American literary
anthology number two, published

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by Random House.

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Her poems have also appeared
in Poetry Northwest, Descant,

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Motive, Transatlantic
Review, Quest,

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The Little Review, Denver
Quarterly, Chicago Review,

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and others.

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She has published nine
books for juveniles.

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Mrs. Weeks is the
co-founder and editor

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of Inscape Magazine,
one of the leading

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little literary
magazines in Arizona.

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And of Baleen Press
which publishes

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Arizona poets and southwestern
poets particularly.

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She is currently working as
the editor of the Arizona

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Teacher, which is published
by the Arizona Education

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Association.

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She's a very, very busy lady
and a very important lady.

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Gives me great pleasure to
present also a very fine poet,

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Ramona Weeks.

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[APPLAUSE]

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