<div dir="ltr"><b><font size="4">Welcome & Congratulations to our VAP this term whose new release this year</font></b><div><br></div><div><div><b><font size="4">Bad Mexican/Bad American</font></b></div><div><b><font size="4">poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz</font></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>is currently listed as a</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>New & Notable Nonfiction</b><div><b>Carnegie Library</b><div><h3 class="gmail-iw" style="overflow:hidden;font-size:0.75rem;font-weight:inherit;margin:inherit;text-overflow:ellipsis;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(95,99,104);line-height:20px"><span class="gmail-qu" role="gridcell" tabindex="-1"><span name="Leah Pellegrini" class="gmail-gD" style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-size:0.875rem;font-weight:bold;display:inline;vertical-align:top;line-height:20px"><span style="vertical-align:top"><a href="https://www.carnegielibrary.org/books-media/">https://www.carnegielibrary.org/books-media/</a></span></span></span></h3><div><span class="gmail-qu" role="gridcell" tabindex="-1"><span name="Leah Pellegrini" class="gmail-gD" style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-size:0.875rem;font-weight:bold;display:inline;vertical-align:top;line-height:20px"><span style="vertical-align:top"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-qu" role="gridcell" tabindex="-1"><span name="Leah Pellegrini" class="gmail-gD" style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-size:0.875rem;font-weight:bold;display:inline;vertical-align:top;line-height:20px"><span style="vertical-align:top">and </span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-qu" role="gridcell" tabindex="-1"><span name="Leah Pellegrini" class="gmail-gD" style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-size:0.875rem;font-weight:bold;display:inline;vertical-align:top;line-height:20px"><span style="vertical-align:top"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-qu" role="gridcell" tabindex="-1"><span name="Leah Pellegrini" class="gmail-gD" style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-size:0.875rem;font-weight:bold;display:inline;vertical-align:top;line-height:20px"><span style="vertical-align:top">What to Read for National Poetry Month</span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-qu" role="gridcell" tabindex="-1"><span name="Leah Pellegrini" class="gmail-gD" style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-size:0.875rem;font-weight:bold;display:inline;vertical-align:top;line-height:20px"><span style="vertical-align:top">University of Chicago Press</span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-qu" role="gridcell" tabindex="-1"><span name="Leah Pellegrini" class="gmail-gD" style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-size:0.875rem;font-weight:bold;display:inline;vertical-align:top;line-height:20px"><span style="vertical-align:top"><a href="https://pressblog.uchicago.edu/2024/04/03/what-to-read-for-national-poetry-month.html">https://pressblog.uchicago.edu/2024/04/03/what-to-read-for-national-poetry-month.html</a><br></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-qu" role="gridcell" tabindex="-1"><span name="Leah Pellegrini" class="gmail-gD" style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-size:0.875rem;font-weight:bold;display:inline;vertical-align:top;line-height:20px"><span style="vertical-align:top"><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo214801989.html">https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo214801989.html</a><br></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-qu" role="gridcell" tabindex="-1"><span name="Leah Pellegrini" class="gmail-gD" style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-size:0.875rem;font-weight:bold;display:inline;vertical-align:top;line-height:20px"><span style="vertical-align:top"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-qu" role="gridcell" tabindex="-1"><span name="Leah Pellegrini" class="gmail-gD" style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-size:0.875rem;font-weight:bold;display:inline;vertical-align:top;line-height:20px"><span style="vertical-align:top">and whose next up just took the Benjamin Saltman Award "</span></span></span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(95,99,104);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">GRAND PRIZE </span><b><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">WINNER</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Jose Hernandez Diaz</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>for "</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">" which is<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">now set</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>for<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space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