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This reading celebrates The Wind Shifts, the anthology edited by Francisco Aragón with a Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera, and published by the University of Arizona Press.

John Olivares Espinoza’s first full-length book of poetry is The Date Fruit Elegies; he’s appeared in many journals and anthologies, most recently in The Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems from California.

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John Phillips Avlon[1] (born 1973) is the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics and Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America. He was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun and worked as chief speechwriter for former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani. He was Director of Speechwriting and Deputy Policy Director for Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign.[2] He is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.[3] He is senior political columnist at TheDailyBeast.com.[4]
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Avlon is the son of Dianne P. and John J. Avlon of South Carolina.[1] Avlon was the youngest and longest-serving speechwriter in the Giuliani Administration as well as Deputy Communications Director. His work included helping prepare the Mayor’s State of the City Addresses for 1999 through 2001. After the attacks of September 11th, he and his team were responsible for writing the eulogies for all New York City Firefighters, New York City Police Officers, Port Authority Police Officers and other emergency workers killed in the destruction of the World Trade Center. Additionally, he served on the staff of the Bilingual Education Reform Task Force, the City Hall Park Restoration Committee, and the 2001 Charter Revision Commission, which established the Office of Emergency Management as a permanent city agency.

Independent Nation has been called, “the definitive history of ‘Centrism’ in America, and probably the best-selling radical centrist book to date.”[5] Avlon has lectured at Yale University, NYU, the Citadel, the Kennedy School of Government, and the State Departments visiting journalist program. He is an advisory board member of the Citizens Union of New York, Bronx Academy of Letters and the Theodore Roosevelt Association.

He has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, PBS, and C-Span. He hosts the “Wingnut of the Week” segment on CNN.[6] Syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker wrote that “Americans who are fed up with the Ann Coulter/Michael Moore school of debate, and are looking for someone to articulate a common sense middle path, may have found their voice in John Avlon.”[7] His essay on the attacks of September 11, The Resilient City was selected to conclude the anthology Empire City: New York Through the Centuries and won acclaim from Fred Siegel, the author of The Future Once Happened Here, as “the single best essay written in the wake of 9/11.”

Avlon is married to Margaret Hoover, the great-granddaughter of President Herbert Hoover.[1

Margaret Hoover
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Margaret Hoover received a B.A. in Spanish Literature with a minor in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College in 2001. She also attended Davidson College for two years, where she was a member of Warner Hall. She worked for Bush-Cheney 04, Inc. and was the Deputy Press Secretary to Florida Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart on Capitol Hill. She then held a White House appointment in the Bush Administration, and also served as a senior advisor to the Deputy Secretary in the Department of Homeland Security. Most recently, she has worked as Deputy Finance Director to Rudy Giulianis Presidential Exploratory Committee. She is a frequent contributor to Fox News's O'Reilly Factor.

In December, 2008, she traveled to the United States territory of Puerto Rico to unveil a bronze, life-sized statue of President Hoover, part of a series of seven statues honoring the Presidents who have visited the territory during their terms of office. The series was commissioned by House Speaker José Aponte and Senate President Kenneth McClintock.

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This reading celebrates The Wind Shifts, the anthology edited by Francisco Aragón with a Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera, and published by the University of Arizona Press.

Adela Najarro has appeared in many literary journals, including Crab Orchard Review, Cimarron Review, and Another Chicago Magazine.

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Billy Collins is the author of five books of poetry. His poetry has appeared in anthologies, textbooks, and a variety of periodicals including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, Harper’s, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly. His work is regularly featured in The Best American Poetry and in the Pushcart Prize anthology. Prof. Collins has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has also won the Bess Hokin Prize, the Frederick Bock Prize, the Oscar Blumenthal Prize, the Wood Prize and the Levinson Prize–all awarded by Poetry magazine. In 1992 he was chosen by the New York Public Library to serve as a “Literary Lion.” He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY) He served as United States Poet Laureate for 2001-2003. He was appointed New York State Poet Laureate 2004-2006. This lecture focuses on one poets assessment of the abiding strengths and influence of Walt Whitmans decisive poem, Leaves of Grass, a century and a half after its publication.

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“”Avlon, who has worked both for Clinton and for New York Republican Rudolph Giuliani, said Welds success in the 1990s shows how many voters here are looking for a candidate who is willing to hold the line against tax increases while articulating pro-education, pro-environment, and pro-business policies. Weld, who supported gay rights and abortion rights, was also blatantly out of step with national Republican positions.”"
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He hosts the “Wingnut of the Week” segment on CNN.[6] Syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker wrote that “Americans who are fed up with the Ann Coulter/Michael Moore school of debate, and are looking for someone to articulate a common sense middle path, may have found their voice in John Avlon.”[7] His essay on the attacks of September 11, The Resilient City was selected to conclude the anthology Empire City: New York Through the Centuries and won acclaim from Fred Siegel, the author of The Future Once Happened Here, as “the single best essay written in the wake of 9/11.”

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This reading celebrates The Wind Shifts, the anthology edited by Francisco Aragón with a Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera, and published by the University of Arizona Press.

Paul Martínez Pompa’s first full-length book of poems, While Late Capitalism, was selected by Martín Espada as winner of the 2008 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize and will be published by University of Notre Dame Press in 2009; he is a former editor of Indiana Review.

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Published in conjunction with the Academy of American Poets, Poem in Your Pocket enables you to select a poem you love, neatly tear it out from the book, and then carry it with you all day to read, be inspired by, and share with coworkers, family, and friends. This innovative format features 200 poems from Shakespeare to Sexton, cleverly organized by theme. This collection also features an introduction by U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan.

Find out more at http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20563.

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