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   from the issue of June 9, 2005

     
 
Pulitzer winners to open Summer Writers' Conference

Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Stephen Dunn and Ted Kooser, the U.S. poet laureate, will kick off the Nebraska Summer Writers' Conference June 20 by reading from their work from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. The reading is free and open to the public.

Dunn is the author of 12 collections of poetry.

Kooser, a professor of English at UNL, is the author of 10 full-length collections of poetry.

For more information about the Nebraska Summer Writer's Conference, visit www.unl.edu/nsw on the Internet.

The reading and reception are co-sponsored at UNL by the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, the Friends of the Libraries, the Friends of the University of Nebraska Press and the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.


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