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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=7 color="#8d8d8d" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:36.0pt;color:#8D8D8D;font-weight:bold'>December 10, 2006</span></font></b><b><font
size=7 color="#8d8d8d"><span style='font-size:36.0pt;color:#8D8D8D;font-weight:
bold'> - </span></font></b><b><font size=7 color="#8d8d8d"><span
style='font-size:36.0pt;color:#8D8D8D;font-weight:bold'>2pm</span></font></b><b><font
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</span></font></b><font size=7><span style='font-size:36.0pt'>Poetry at the
Ruskin<br>
</span></font>Red Hen Press, in association with the venerable Ruskin Art Club,
is proud to announce Southern California’s<br>
acclaimed reading series, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Poetry at the
Ruskin</span></i>. Featuring local and international poets, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Poetry at the Ruskin </span></i>will host<br>
the very best of today’s artists.<br>
Kate Gale, Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, and Elena Karina Byrne, past
Regional Director of the Poetry<br>
Society of America and Poetry Moderator and Consultant for the <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Los Angeles</span></i><i><span style='font-style:
italic'> Times </span></i>Festival of Books, are your hosts.<br>
Please join them for delightful readings by Geri Digiorno and CD Wright,
followed by a reception with complimentary<br>
refreshments. The Ruskin Art Club, founded in 1888, is Los Angeles’
oldest cultural association. Its 1922 clubhouse<br>
was declared a Los Angeles Historical Monument in 1997.<br>
<font size=5><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Red Hen Press Reading Series<br>
</span></font><i><span style='font-style:italic'>Poetry is the suggestion, by
the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.<br>
—John Ruskin<br>
</span></i><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>The Ruskin Art Club<br>
</span></b><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>800 S. Plymouth Blvd.<br>
Los Angeles, CA 90005<br>
310.669.2369 or 818.831.0649<br>
Admission: General $10<br>
Students & Seniors $5<br>
Seating is limited and on a first come basis.<br>
</span></font><b><font size=7 color="#8d8d8d"><span style='font-size:36.0pt;
color:#8D8D8D;font-weight:bold'>Ruskin Art Club<br>
</span></font></b><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>4111EV<br>
This event is supported by <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Poets &
Writers, Inc. </span></b>through a grant it has received from The James<br>
Irvine Foundation. The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the
Los Angeles County Arts Commission<br>
and the National Endowment for the Arts partially support Red Hen Press.<br>
</span></font><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>CD Wright </span></b>has
published nine collections of poetry, most recently the booklength<br>
poem <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Deepstep Come Shining. </span></i>She
has won various poetry awards including being<br>
named 1994 State Poet of Rhode Island, Fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation<br>
and Bunting Institute, and two awards from the National Endowment of the<br>
Arts. Her collection <i><span style='font-style:italic'>String Light</span></i>,
won the 1992 Poetry Center Book Award given by<br>
San Francisco University. Wright’s poetry and essays have appeared in
multiple<br>
magazines and she has served as a visiting professor at the University of
Iowa’s Writers<br>
Workshop.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Geri Digiorno </span></b>is Poet Laureate of
Sonoma County 2006-2007 and founder and director of<br>
The Petaluma Poetry Walk. She is author of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>White
Lipstick </span></i>(Red Hen Press, 2005). Geri’s<br>
publishing credits include <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Paterson Literary
Review</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Carbuncle</span></i>, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>33 Poetry Review</span></i>, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Cyanosis</span></i>,<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>North Coast Review</span></i>, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Tomcat</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Tight</span></i>,
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Bogg</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Women’s Voices</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Sonoma
Mandala</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Noe Valley Voice<br>
</span></i>and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Haight Ashbury Review</span></i>.
In addition, she is a painter and teaches workshops in Sonoma<br>
County and Paterson, New Jersey. A chapbook of her poems, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>I’m Tap Dancing</span></i>, was published<br>
by Norton Coker Press.</p>
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<p></x-sigsep><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><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 </span></font></p>
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