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<pre><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dear Subscribers,</span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, in cooperation with the </span></font>Boston </pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>remarkable week in </span></font>Boston. Participants will study and discuss poetry </pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>poets. Past faculty include Frank Bidart, Mark Doty, Louise Gluck and </span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Visit the Favorite Poem Project website (link below) to learn more, or </span></font></pre><pre><font
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<div>Maurya Simon</div>
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<div>Professor </div>
<div>Department of Creative Writing</div>
<div>University of California Riverside</div>
<div>900 University Avenue</div>
<div>Riverside, CA 92521-0318</div>
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