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Wonderful news with this and JF’s prize, tinged with the sadness of Elizabeth and Micah’s loss. It’s all beautiful, it’s all awe.<BR>
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On 10/22/08 10:36 AM, "D Charles Whitney" <<a href="chuck.whitney@ucr.edu">chuck.whitney@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><I>Prairie Home Companion </I>host Garrison Keillor will read Maurya Simon's poem 'Waste Management' from her new collection <I>Cartographies</I> next month on his nationally syndicated program <I>The Writer's Almanac.<BR>
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The poem will be on the Nov. 16 show, aired by American Public Media. The Writer's Almanac is broadcast on 320 noncommercial radio stations around the country and his reading will be available as a podcast, and archived at </I></SPAN></FONT><I><FONT SIZE="1"><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:9pt'><a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org">http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org</a>.<BR>
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Keillor read two poems from Simon's <I>Ghost Orchid</I> on the program -- "Invocation" on March 29, 2004, and "Angels" on April 20, 2004.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="1"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:8.5pt'><B><I>D Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair<BR>
Department of Creative Writing, 4119 INTS<BR>
U of California, Riverside CA 92521<BR>
951.827.6076 FAX 951.827.3619<BR>
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