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Jen Hofer is also a graduate
from the Iowa Writers'

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Workshop of a year or so back.

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She is a poet.

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She's also a translator.

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She's lived in Mexico,
and she translates

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contemporary Mexican women,
primarily poetry, from Spanish

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into English.

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And do you translate
from English into Spanish

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as well, Jen?

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[CHUCKLING]

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She has at least
one manuscript-- one

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that I know of-- entitled
Infinitive, which is fantastic.

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Jen really offers herself to
poetry in a way that a lot

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of people don't.

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She really gives herself
to poetry, rather

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than taking from poetry
what it can give her.

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I really admire that about her.

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She has poems in several
different journals,

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including Chain, Rhizome,
XCP: Cross Cultural

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Poetics, RIFTOF.01, which is
an online journal that I found.

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She has a great poem there,
entitled "Infinitive,"

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as well with Juliana Spahr,
and Lori Lubeski, Combo,

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and an A+ grand chapbook,
which is there on the end

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of the table for your
perusal, entitled As far as.

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And I welcome Jen Hofer.

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[APPLAUSE]

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