<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.0976562); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.03125); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.03125); "><div>Forwarded:</div><div><br></div><div>I'm writing to let you know about a poetry contest that I'll be helping to judge for the Jewish Daily Forward newspaper, in New York City. </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.171875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.105469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.105469); "><br></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.175781); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.109375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.109375); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.175781); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.109375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.109375); ">It's a competition pegged on the 1911 Triangle Waist Company Factory Fire -- which killed 146 workers, most of them immigrant women -- and its legacy. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.148438); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.0820312); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.0820312); "> </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.171875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.105469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.105469); "><br></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.175781); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.109375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.109375); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.175781); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.109375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.109375); ">Per contest rules, two <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.160156); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.09375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.09375); ">poets will win $500 each, for an original poem in English or in Yiddish. The a<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.144531); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.078125); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.078125); ">pplication <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.160156); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.09375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.09375); ">deadline is Feb. 14. Entrants must be 18 or older, and legal residents of the U.S. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.15625); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.0898438); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.152344); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.0859375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.0859375); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.160156); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.09375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.09375); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.160156); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.09375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.09375); ">Following's a longer writeup of the competition, including a link to the entry form:</span></span></span><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.171875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.105469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.105469); "><br></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.175781); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.109375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.109375); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.175781); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.109375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.109375); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.175781); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.109375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.109375); 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Robin Russin<br><br>Associate Professor, Department of Theatre<br>Director, MFA for Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts<br>University of California, Riverside<br>Riverside, CA 92521<br>(951) 827-2707<br>(213) 949-1061 cel<br><a href="mailto:robin.russin@ucr.edu">robin.russin@ucr.edu</a><br>http://robinrussin.com<br><br>"I try all things; I achieve what I can." - Ishmael in "Moby Dick," written by Herman Melville<br><br>"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it." - William Munny in "Unforgiven," written by David Webb Peoples<br><br>"Hunger is the best spice." - Spike Spiegel in "Cowboy Bebop," written by Keiko Nobumoto</span>
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