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I don't know why Walgreens did this to my pictures.

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Well I'm in over my head friend. I don't know if I can pull it together in time to make it all right. Working on it.

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(and so it begins)

postcard: Knox College

On Friday, January 19, at 4 o'clock in the Alumni Room of Old Main, the Caxton Club will feature poets Nancy Eimers and William Olsen. All are welcome. Refreshments will be inevitable. Books will be available for purchase following the reading.

Eimers teaches creative writing at Western Michigan University. She has published three collections of poetry, "A Grammar to Waking," "No Moon," and "Destroying Angel." She received a "Discovery" Award from The Nation magazine, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, and a Whiting Writers Award. Her work has appeared in "The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry By American Women," "Best American Poetry of 1996," "Poets of the New Century," "The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry," Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Field and Poetry Northwest.

Olsen teaches at Western Michigan University and in the master's program at Vermont College. He is the author of three collections of poetry, "The Hand of God and a Few Bright Flowers," "Vision of a Storm Cloud," and "Trouble Lights." Olsen also coedited the poetry collection "Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life." His poems and essays have appeared in The New Republic, Chicago Review, Paris Review, Southern Review, TriQuarterly, "New American Poets of the Nineties," "The New Breadloaf Anthology of Contemporary Poetry," and "Poets of the New Century." Olsen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, "Discovery" Award from The Nation magazine, Texas Institute of Arts Award, Breadloaf Fellowship, Pushcart Prize and two Academy of American Poets awards.

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