[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: A Jack Gilbert Gift from Playa Poets

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From: Maurya Simon [mailto:maurya.simon at ucr.edu] 
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 2:48 PM
To: Amanda J Labagnara
Subject: Fwd: A Jack Gilbert Gift from Playa Poets

Hi Amanda,

Please forward this email to everyone.  Thanks, Maurya


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>Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 04:19:49 -0000
>Subject: A Jack Gilbert Gift from Playa Poets
>
>Friends of Playa Poets:
>
>As you no doubt know, we are convinced that Jack Gilbert is one of our 
>greatest living
>poets, a national treasure.  For those of you who missed the NPR interview 
>with him that
>ran today, and the four extra poems he read on the NPR website, we edited 
>it all together
>and have posted the 18MB file for you to download by clicking on this link:
>
>  http://homepage.mac.com/r.w.b/filechute/Jack%20Gilbert%20on%20NPR.mp3
>
>It'll run on your iPod or any other machine that runs MP3s.   Thanks to 
>Steve Heller to
>tipping us to the interview.
>
>Jack's latest book, Refusing Heaven, also won this year's LA Times Book 
>Award for Poetry,
>in case you missed the piece.  Poetry winners, naturally, were buried deep 
>in the article.
>
>http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bookawards29apr29,1,7329864.story?
>ctrack=1&cset=true
>
>Happy May.
>
>Kaaren Kitchell
>Richard Beban
>
>The Playa Poets
>
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>
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>
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>for up-to-date information on workshops, readings, etc.
>
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Maurya Simon

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