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Hello.

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Thank you, Laynie, for
asking me to introduce Renee.

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It's an honor to do so.

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Renee Angle is the University of
Arizona Poetry Center's program

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coordinator where she oversees
the administrative and

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logistical details of
educational outreach programs.

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She holds an MFA from
George Mason University

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where she was editor for
the journal So To Speak,

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a feminist journal
of language and art.

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She taught for the John Hopkins
Center for Talented Youth

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and for a charter
school in South Tucson.

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Her poems have been published
in Diagram, Practice, New Art

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and Writing, Sonora Review,
EOAGH and the chapbook

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Lucy Design in the
Papal Flea, which

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is out with dancing girl press.

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I admire the way Renee
questions authenticity.

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She understands that truth is
an arrangement just as much

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as history and fact are.

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For instance, she sets
her mind to the task

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of lifting linguistic
products from the life

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and work of the mythological
and historical figure

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Joseph Smith,
founder of Mormonism.

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And by repurposing the language
of authority and faith,

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exposes the constructed
of these concepts.

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By reusing, rearranging,
rewriting, and rethinking,

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Renee's new
constructions are as much

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social criticism
as creative act.

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Through her linguistic
turns and jumps,

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we lose the sense of
authenticity and gain

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a new sense of experiencing.

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So please welcome, Renee Angle.

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