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Way to go JFH! -- <i>cw</i><div><br> <br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></font>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:charles.whitney@ucr.edu">charles.whitney@ucr.edu</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Fwd: Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Undocuments 1971—2007 wins 2008 PEN Oakland Award</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 37px; text-indent: -37px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Kim McMillon <<a href="mailto:kimmac@pacbell.net">kimmac@pacbell.net</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 34px; text-indent: -34px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">November 13, 2008 2:16:07 PM PST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 50px; text-indent: -50px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971—2007 wins 2008 PEN Oakland Award</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; text-indent: -58px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:kimmac@pacbell.net">kimmac@pacbell.net</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>Dear Professor Herrera,</div> <div> </div> <div>Congratulations on <span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"><strong><em>187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971—2007</em></strong> winning the 2008 PEN Oakland National Literary Award. Below is a press release on the event. We are also creating a press packet, and email postcard. Could you please send me your photo, and bio via email to be used in the press packet.</span></div> <div><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"></span> </div> <div><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">I can be reached at (510) 681-5652.</span></div> <div><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"></span> </div> <div><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Thank you. </span></div> <div><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"></span> </div> <div><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Best,</span></div> <div><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"></span> </div> <div><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Kim McMillon</span></div> <div><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i><u><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</span></u></i></b><span style="COLOR: #333333"><font size="3"> <o:p></o:p></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="COLOR: black">Contact: Kim McMillon</span></b><span style="COLOR: #333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="COLOR: black"> (510) 681-5652/<a href="mailto:kimmac@pacbell.net">kimmac@pacbell.net</a> </span></b><span style="COLOR: #333333"><o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="COLOR: black"> <a href="http://www.penoakland.org">www.penoakland.org</a></span></b><span style="COLOR: #333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black"> </span></i></b><span style="COLOR: #333333"><o:p></o:p></span></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black"> </span><span style="COLOR: #333333"><font size="3"> <o:p></o:p></font></span></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; text-align: center; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="COLOR: black">PEN <st1:city w:st="on">Oakland</st1:city> & The <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oakland</st1:place></st1:city> Public Library </span></b><span style="COLOR: #333333"><o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; text-align: center; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="COLOR: black">Announce the Winners of the</span></b><span style="COLOR: #333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; text-align: center; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="COLOR: black">PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles 18th Annual National Literary Awards &</span></b><span style="COLOR: #333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; text-align: center; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="COLOR: black">12th Annual PEN <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oakland</st1:place></st1:city> Censorship Award</span></b><span style="COLOR: #333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; text-align: center; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="COLOR: black">Saturday, December 6th, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oakland</st1:place></st1:city></span></b><span style="COLOR: #333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; text-align: center; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="COLOR: black">Free To The Public</span></b><span style="COLOR: #333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: black"> </span><span style="COLOR: #333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: black">(Oakland, CA), November 12, 2008 --- The Public is invited to attend the PEN Oakland National Literary Awards and ceremony hosted by former San Francisco poet laureate devorah major on Saturday, December 6th from 2-5 PM at the Rockridge Branch Library, located at 5366 College Avenue in Oakland. </span><span style="COLOR: #333333"><o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><span style="COLOR: #333333"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Poet Michael McClure, about whom actor Dennis Hopper has said, "Without McClure's roar there would have been no Sixties," will give the keynote address. To quote Wired Magazine ..."Michael McClure [is]a poet who (for fifty years in print) has explored states of freedom with candor and athletic intelligence.”</span><span style="COLOR: black"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><span style="COLOR: #333333"><o:p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></o:p></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: black">On Saturday, December 6th, come celebrate well-known and emerging Bay Area and international authors who will be honored for excellence in multicultural literature at the 18th Annual PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Awards. </span><span style="COLOR: #333333"><o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: black"> </span><span style="COLOR: #333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: black">PEN <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oakland</st1:place></st1:city> , A Bay Area Chapter of the International Organization of Poets, Essayists, and Novelists, was founded in 1989 to address multicultural issues, and educate the public as to the nature of multicultural work. These award-winning authors address the diversity and uniqueness of American culture, and represent the new voices of American literature. The late Josephine Miles, in whose honor the awards are presented, was a highly regarded poet, critic, and professor of English at the <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">California</st1:placename> in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:city> . </span><span style="COLOR: #333333"><o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><span style="COLOR: #333333"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><span style="COLOR: #333333"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">On May 15<sup>th</sup>, PEN Oakland Vice President Reginald Lockett died. In his honor, PEN <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oakland</st1:place></st1:city> has named its Lifetime Achievement Award, the Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award. This year's winners are poet Diane di Prima, and playwright Adrienne Kennedy. Allen Ginsberg said of Diane, “A great woman poet in second half of American century, she broke barriers of race-class identity, delivered a major body of verse brilliant in its particularity.” <o:p></o:p></font></font></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><span style="COLOR: #333333"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><span style="COLOR: #333333"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Adrienne Kennedy was a key figure in the Blacks Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She is best known for her first major play “<i>Funnyhouse of a Negro,” </i>winner of the 1964 Obie Award for most distinguished play. In 1995, critic Michael Feingold of the Village Voice declared that<i> "</i>with Beckett gone, Adrienne Kennedy is probably the boldest artist now writing for the theater<i>."</i> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><i><span style="COLOR: #333333"> </span></i><span style="COLOR: #333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: black">The PEN Oakland Censorship Award will be given to Project Censored, for its ongoing research on national news stories ignored, misrepresented or censored by the U.S. corporate media, in particular important stories about the nationwide move to impeach President George W. Bush and the fact that over one million Iraqis have lost their lives since the 2003 invasion, with more than 50% of those deaths attributable to U.S. troops and their allies. Based on the premise that an uninformed or misinformed public cannot make valid policy decisions via the ballot box, PEN Oakland honors this organization for their efforts to bring facts to light that are willfully buried by many mainstream media outlets.</span><span style="COLOR: #333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><span style="COLOR: black"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: black">A reception will be held after the awards where the public will have an opportunity to meet the authors, and purchase signed copies of their award winning books. During the program, winners will be presented with a plaque and asked to read selections from their work. </span><span style="COLOR: #333333"><o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: black"> </span><span style="COLOR: #333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: black">This event is free to the public. For more information, please call (510) 681-5652.</span><span style="COLOR: #333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: black"> </span><span style="COLOR: #333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="COLOR: black">2008 Josephine Miles National Literary Awards winners are:</span></b><span style="COLOR: #333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><span style="COLOR: #333333"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><a name="btAsinTitle"></a><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics</span></i><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"> (Essays) by Rebecca Solnit ( <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">California</st1:placename></st1:place> Press)</span></b><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><span style="COLOR: #333333"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><a name="btAsinTitle1"></a><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971—2007</span></i><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"> (Poetry & Short Stories) by Juan Felipe Herrera (City Lights)</span></b><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><span style="COLOR: #333333"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i><span style="COLOR: #333333">Sleeping with the Moon </span></i><span style="COLOR: #333333">(Poetry) by Colleen J. McElroy ( <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Illinois</st1:place></st1:state> Poetry Series)</span></b><span style="COLOR: #333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><span style="COLOR: #333333"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><b><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><i><span style="COLOR: #333333">The Stillness of Love and Exile </span></i><span style="COLOR: #333333">(Fiction) by Rosa Martha Villarreal (Tertulia Press)</span></font></font></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><a name="btAsinTitle3"></a><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department? The Disappearance of Black Americans from <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> Universities </span></i><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">(Non-Fiction) by Cecil Brown ( <st1:place w:st="on">North Atlantic</st1:place> Books)</span></b><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333"> </span><span style="COLOR: #333333"><font size="3"> <o:p></o:p></font></span></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><a name="btAsinTitle4"></a><b><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><i><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel</span></i><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"> (Fiction) by Colson Whitehead (Anchor)<o:p></o:p></span></font></font></b> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><b><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"><o:p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></o:p></span></b> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">About Now: Collected Poems</span></i><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"> (Poetry) by <a name="yiv165639184641"></a>Joanne Kyger (National Poetry Foundation) </span></b><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><b><span style="COLOR: #333333; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"><o:p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></o:p></span></b> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b> </div><h1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">National in scope, the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Awards represent a new perception of multicultural literature that does not seek validation from the literary establishment, but creates its own standards and models of literature.</span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p></o:p></span></font></font></h1><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: black"> </span><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; "><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: black">Past award-winners include: Elmaz Abinader, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Juvenal Acosta, Opal Palmer Adisa, Francisco X. Alarcon, Alfred Arteaga, Marsha Lee Berkman, Eleanor Taylor Bland, Phyllis Burke, Jeffrey Paul Chan, Marilyn Chin, Allen Cohen, Lucha Corpi, Kamau Daaood, <b><i>Mike Davis</i></b>, Chitra Divakaruni, Wendy Doniger, Nathan Englander, Ibrahim Fawal, Paul Flores, Ruth Forman, Maketa Groves, Sam Hamill, Peter J. Harris, Joy Harjo, Jack Hirschman, Ghada Karmi, Sylvia Lopez-Medina, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, E. Ethelbert Miller, John Mulligan, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Louis Owens, Robert Parry, Jewel Parker Rhodes, Brenda Lane Richardson, Luis Rodriguez, Jerome Rothenberg, Suhayl Saadi, Elaine Marcus Starkman, Clyde R. Taylor,<b><i> Clifford E. Trafzer, </i></b>Gail Tsukiyama, Jose Garcia Villa, Alma Luz Villanueva, Gerald Vizenor, Sylvia Watanabe, Derek Walcott, Gary Webb, Darryl Babe Wilson, Koon Woon, Andy Ross, and Clive Matson. (partial list)</span><span style="COLOR: #333333"><o:p></o:p></span></font></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; text-align: center; "><span style="COLOR: #333333"><o:p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></o:p></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; text-align: center; "><span style="COLOR: #333333"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Co-sponsored by the <st1:city w:st="on">Oakland</st1:city> Public Library and PEN <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 14.4pt; text-align: center; "><span style="COLOR: #333333"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">###</font></font></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Juan Felipe Herrera, Professor</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Gluck Fellows Coordinator</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Department of Creative Writing</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">CHASS # 2613</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">University of California, Riverside</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(951) 827-5027</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">www.juanfelipe.org/</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">FAX: (951) 827-3619</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:www.creativewriting@ucr.edu">www.creativewriting@ucr.edu</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(559) 940-4219 </div></blockquote><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><b style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "><i style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; ">D. 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