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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span>dA Center for the Arts proudly presents
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style='font-size:13.5pt'>FREE POETRY READING* AND RECEPTION</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>THIS Sunday,
February 10 at 2 p.m.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Open Mic at 3:30
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:18.0pt'>by Lynne Thompson</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Winner of the 2007 Perugia Press Prize for her poetry
collection <i>Beg No Pardon</i>, Lynne Thompson was born and raised in Los
Angeles, California by parents born in the Windward Islands, West Indies. She
received her B.A. from Scripps College and a J.D. from Southwestern University
School of Law. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she was named finalist for the Philip
Levine, Crab Orchard, Backwaters Press, and Blue Lynx Poetry Prizes. Ms.
Thompson currently serves as the Director of Labor Relations at U.C.L.A. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>[Open Mic follows at
3:30; sign-ups at 1:45, $6]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The reading is free and open to the public. Open
Mic: $6. Sign up at 1:45. dA Center for the Arts <br>
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>252-D S. Main Street Pomona, Ca. 91766
(909) 397-9716 (<a href="http://www.dacenter.org/">www.dacenter.org</a> ) <br>
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*This event is supported by Poets and Writers, Inc. through a grant it has
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The James Irvine Foundation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Maurya Simon<br>
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Professor <br>
Department of Creative Writing<br>
University of California Riverside<br>
900 University Avenue<br>
Riverside, CA 92521-0318<br>
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TEL. (951) 827-2006 (office)<br>
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