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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Maurya Simon
[mailto:maurya.simon@ucr.edu] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 08, 2006
12:39 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Amanda Labagnara<BR><B>Subject:</B> Fwd: MARVIN BELL
& REX WILDER<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face="Times, Times">Dear
Amanda,<BR><BR>Please forward to everyone. Thanks,
Maurya<BR><BR><BR></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT face="Times, Times"
size=2><B><U>THE RUSKIN ART CLUB <BR></U></B>800 S Plymouth Blvd Los
Angeles 90005<BR>1block S of Wilshire/3blks west of Crenshaw at Plymouth
& 8th<BR>$10 Gen / $5 Student/Senior <BR>Free
Refreshment/Food Reception / Books for Sale<BR>Ruskin Art Club Events
310-669-2369 <A href="http://www.ruskinartclub.org/"
eudora="autourl"><U>www.ruskinartclub.org</A></U> <BR><B>Red Hen
Press</B>:818-831-0649 <A href="http://www.redhen.org/"
eudora="autourl"><U>www.redhen.org</A><BR><BR></FONT><FONT
face="Times, Times"><B>THE RUSKIN ART CLUB & RED HEN PRESS
PRESENTS<BR><BR></B></FONT><FONT face="Times, Times" size=4>POETRY
READING FEBRUARY 12, 2006 2PM<BR><BR></FONT><FONT
face=arial><B>MARVIN BELL</U></B>'s poetry has been described as ambitious and
without pretension. The most recent of his 17 books are two poetry
collections, Rampant and Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000. A longtime faculty
member at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, he leads an annual Urban
Teachers Workshop for the inner city program America SCORES; collaborates with
composers, musicians, filmmakers, and dancers; and teaches for two
low-residency MFA programs. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Bell was Iowa's first poet
laureate. He has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Poetry Review, and has
held Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships as well as Senior Fulbright Appointments
to Yugoslavia and Australia. Mr. Bell has taught at Goddard College and the
Universities of Hawaii, Washington, and Wichita State. He lives in Iowa City
and Port Townsend, Washington.<BR><BR>Born and raised in Los Angeles,
<B><U>REX WILDER</U></B> has traveled extensively and lived for extended
periods in Tahiti, Normandy, Madrid, and New York City. He attended
Connecticut College, where he graduated with a degree in Hispanic Studies.
Waking Bodies is his recent collection of poetry published by Red Hen
Press in 2006. Wilder now lives in Pacific Palisades, California, with his
wife and three children.<BR><BR></FONT><FONT face="Times, Times"
size=2><B><U>Forthcoming</U></B>: CD Wright, Douglas Kearney, Haryette Mullen,
Cynthia Hogue, Ron Koertge, Gary Soto, Forrest Gander George Keithley, David
Lehman, Stephen Yenser, Katie Ford, Geri Di Giorno, Garret Hongo and
others!<BR>Also look for our <B>Concerts</B>, <B>Workshops</B>, and <B>Modern
Masters Tributes !! <BR></B>Become part of our family, become a member before
06!<BR>Sponsor a reading, a lecture…!!</BLOCKQUOTE><X-SIGSEP>
<P></X-SIGSEP>Maurya Simon<BR><BR>Professor <BR>Department of Creative
Writing<BR>University of California Riverside<BR>900 University
Avenue<BR>Riverside, CA 92521-0318<BR><BR>TEL. (951) 827-2006
(office)<BR><BR>FAX: (951) 827-3619 <BR></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>