<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Exciting<br><br>Chris Abani <div>w<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.231373); ">ww.chrisabani.com</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.231373);"><br></span></div><div> </div></div><div><br>On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Robin Russin <<a href="mailto:robin.russin@ucr.edu">robin.russin@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>There were more great lines, too-- wonderful work!<div><br></div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Holly Gaglio wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br><div style="text-align: center;">"When grief walks in, there is nothing to do, but grind the beans..." <br>-- Bonnie Bolling, "Home"<br></div><br><div style="text-align: center;">"We think of you, and we miss you like we miss home, like we miss the three seasons, mangos, lemongrass, and the sweet scent from a distant and familiar mountain..." -- Jie Tian, "An Elegy for M.K."<br> <br>"Alien rock must be good fertilizer." <br>-- Judy Soo Hoo, Excerpts from her novel<br><br><div style="text-align: left;"><br>**Next week, January 20th: Vanessa Hua, Ching-In Chen, and Eva Konstantopoulos</div> <br><br></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Cwgrad-announcements mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu">Cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/cwgrad-announcements">http://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/cwgrad-announcements</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>