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Literary Arts Institute

1999-2000 Academic Year

January 1, 2000
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April Bernard March 7, 2000

April Bernard is the author of Blackbird Bye Bye, Psalms, and Pirate Jenny. Most recently, she was a contributing writer to the upcoming Graywolf Press book By Herself.

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Robert Pinsky Sep. 29, 1999

U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky read from The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996. He is the author of Sounds of Poetry, The Figured Wheel: New Collected Poems, and The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation. This event was sponsored by the Teagle Foundation.