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I have a few announcements
to make before the reading.

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First of all, as
most of you know,

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The Poetry Center sponsors
a contest, a poetry contest,

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every year for graduate students
and undergraduate students.

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And the first prize
is a $100 prize

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given by the Academy
of American Poets.

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I'm pleased to announce that
this year's judge, Greg Pape,

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has made the selections.

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And the first prize
winner is Luke Yelman.

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And we have four second prize
winners, David Scott Penn,

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Chris Sullivan, Chris
Weidenbach, and Jack Wang.

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And two honorable mentions, Eric
Burkholz and Maggie Golston.

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So our sincere congratulations
go to those winners.

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And you can hear them
reading from their work

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here on March 29.

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A couple of other
events I'd like

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to announce that are
coming up sooner than

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that, Friday, the
day after tomorrow,

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there's a chance to
hear three really

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distinguished women
writers who write

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about the West in a kind of
informal panel discussion.

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The natural history writer,
Ann Zwinger, Navajo poet Luci

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Tapahonso, and rancher, poet,
and fiction writer, Jane Candia

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Coleman will be giving a
panel discussion called Women,

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Writing, the American West.

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It's going to be
Friday, March 3,

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in the library in room A-
313, from 10:00 to 11:30 AM.

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I should tell you,
some of you have

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been asking about whether
Tony's book is available.

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AUSA Bookstore is here
tonight with Sweet Ruin.

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So, I'm sure Tony would
be very happy to sign

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the book after the reading,
if you haven't got a copy,

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or even if you
already have a copy.

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As many of you
know, Tony Hoagland

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is an alumnus of our
MFA program here.

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He's received many other
honors for his work,

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including an NEA, an Arizona
Commission on the Arts grant,

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a fellowship from the Fine Arts
Work Center in Provincetown,

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and other awards.

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When his book, Sweet Ruin,
won the 1992 Brittingham Prize

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in Poetry from the
University of Wisconsin,

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it was no surprise
to the many admirers

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of his work, who had known that
his poems deserved wide reading

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and praise.

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The book has become one of
those talked about books,

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the kind that gives words,
through liquid and thoughtful

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storytelling, to the real
tensions and dilemmas of living.

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The kind that reminds
us what poetry

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is good for, getting to the
troubled heart of the matter

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with bite and sweetness.

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Please welcome
back Tony Hoagland.

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