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Thank you.

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Our first reader today is
going to be Peggy Shumaker.

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Peggy is one of our own.

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Although she wasn't
born in Tucson,

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she came here with her family
at a very, very young age,

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attended grammar school in
high school here in Tucson,

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is a graduate-- got her
undergraduate degree

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from the University of
Arizona-- and received her MFA

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in creative writing from
the University of Arizona.

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Currently, she lives in
another beautiful place

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called Fairbanks, Alaska.

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She was a writer in residence
for the Arizona Commission

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of the Arts and she served
as poet in residence

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at Bucknell University.

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She has worked with
all sorts of groups--

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from prison inmates
to honor students--

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far, far too many to even
begin to enumerate here.

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The workshop and excuse me--

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If you have read
any of her works,

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you know how
appreciative she is,

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and how much she loves nature.

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And I must recommend to you her
most recent book, a collection

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of poems and paintings
called "Blaze,"

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which she co-authored
with Kesler Woodward, who

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was the artist.

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And now, I'd like to
present to you, Peggy.

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[APPLAUSE]

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