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Garrison Keillor read "We Are All Writing God's Poem" on the Writer's Almanac on March 21, 2009.

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Line Dance was awarded the 2009 Paterson Prize for Literary Excellence!

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Garrison Keillor will read "The VCCA Fellows Visit the Holiness Baptist Church, Amherst, VA" on June 28, 2009, on The Writer's Almanac, National Public Radio.

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Recent poems were accepted for these anthologies:
Beloved on the Earth, 150 poems of Grief and Gratitude (Holy Cow! Press)
24/7: A Caregiving Anthology (Ireland)
Love Over Sixty: 100 Women Poets
Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press)http://smithdocs.net/foodpoems.htm
Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes (C&R Press)
http://www.crpress.org
Eating the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath (Backwaters Press)
http://www.thebackwaterspress.com

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Line Dance, my second full-length book, is out now, from Word Press.

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Bedford/St. Martin's will be including a poem in their textbooks Poetry: An Introduction(sixth edition) and the Bedford Introduction to Literature(ninth edition).