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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Poets:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Walt Whitman Award for a first book of poems,
judged this year by Kay Ryan, is accepting submissions postmarked before
November 15th. The entry form and guidelines are available at </FONT><A
href="http://www.poets.org"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>www.poets.org</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good luck, and good writing!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andrew</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT face=Garamond size=2><I>Andrew Winer<BR>Assistant
Professor and Co-Chair<BR>MFA Program in Creative Writing &<BR>Writing for
the Performing Arts<BR>Department of Creative Writing<BR>University of
California<BR>Riverside, California 92521-0001<BR>Phone 951.827.2007/Fax
951.827.3619<BR>Email: <A
href="mailto:andrew.winer@ucr.edu">andrew.winer@ucr.edu<BR></I><A
href="http://www.andrewwiner.com"><I>www.andrewwiner.com</I><BR></A></FONT><BR><FONT
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