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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Paul Dean [mailto:paulsdean@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 07, 2012 7:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bryan G Bradford<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Smartish Pace Erskine J. Poetry Prize<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bryan Bradford,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222">I am an intern for Smartish Pace Magazine, a non-profit poetry review based out of Baltimore, Maryland and founded in 1999. <i>Smartish Pace</i> has published poems by the
following <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">Pulitzer Prize</span></a> winners:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Trethewey" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">Natasha
Trethewey</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Emerson" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">Claudia Emerson</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kooser" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">Ted
Kooser</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Muldoon" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">Paul Muldoon</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Dennis" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">Carl
Dennis</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Dunn" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">Stephen Dunn</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_S._Taylor" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">Henry
Taylor</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Oliver" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">Mary Oliver</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Kumin" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">Maxine
Kumin</span></a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Hecht" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">Anthony Hecht</span></a>.</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222">Also, <i>Smartish Pace</i>’s website is the home of Poets Q & A, the first interactive poetry forum on the internet, where readers ask questions of well-known poets.</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222">I would like to invite your graduate students to submit poetry for our annual Erskine J. Poetry Prize. The deadline for submissions is September 1<sup>st</sup>, 2012. All
poems submitted for the prize will be considered for publication in Smartish Pace. Therefore, it is possible to have your poems selected for an issue of Smartish Pace even if they do not win the Erskine J. Poetry Prize. The winning poet receives $200. Top
three poets and all finalists (usually about 10) are published in <i>Smartish Pace</i>. The full submission guidelines can be found at:</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.smartishpace.com/contests/erskine_j/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">http://www.smartishpace.com/contests/erskine_j/</span></a></span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222">Thank you for your time, and I would greatly appreciate your help in forwarding this email to your creative writing graduate students.</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222">Best,</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222">Paul Dean</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222">Intern</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222">Smartish Pace</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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