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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Wednesday, May 9, 2007, at 7:00 p.m.</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Boston</span></font></b></st1:City></st1:place><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> Playwrights’ Theatre, <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street
w:st="on">949 Comm Ave</st1:Street>,<span style='font-weight:normal'> </span><st1:City
w:st="on">Boston</st1:City></st1:address></span></b> (Green Line B, Pleasant
St.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><b><i><font size=3
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font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>AGNI Magazine</span></font></i>’s
35th Anniversary Celebration, launching issue #65</b>, with readings by<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-indent:-1.75in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><font
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style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>Jonathan
Schell: One of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>America</span></b></st1:country-region></st1:place><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>’s foremost writers</span></b> on peace and war.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-indent:-1.75in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=3 face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ø<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Melissa Green</st1:PersonName>:
Poet and memoirist;<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b>author of <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Squanicook Eclogues</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-indent:-1.75in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=3 face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ø<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>Vince
Passaro: Author of <b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Violence, Nudity, Adult Content: A
Novel</span></i></b>; contributor to <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Harper’s
Magazine</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>GQ</span></i>, &
many others.<o:p></o:p></p>
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style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ø<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>Rosanna
Warren: Poet & translator; <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>winner of the Lamont Prize</span></b> and the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">American</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Academy</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> of Arts & Letters’s
Award of Merit.<o:p></o:p></p>
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and all to a <font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><a
href="http://www.bu.edu/agni/news/index.html#Events">reading and release party</a></span></font>
on Wednesday, May 9, 2006, at 7:00 p.m., to celebrate our <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>35th anniversary</span></b> and the publication of <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>AGNI 65</span></i>. The reading will be held at<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> Boston University’s Boston Playwrights’
Theatre</span></b> and will feature Jonathan Schell, <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Melissa
Green</st1:PersonName>, Vince Passaro, and Rosanna Warren.<o:p></o:p></p>
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href="http://www.agnimagazine.org/">AGNI</a></span></font></i>—<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>“one of <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>’s,
and the world’s, most significant literary journals”</span></b> (<st1:place
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<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>)—holds a
“balance . . . between service to new writers and fidelity to
what’s what in writing itself” (Seamus Heaney).<i><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><a name="OLE_LINK1"></a><a name="OLE_LINK10"></a><a
name="OLE_LINK9"></a><a name="OLE_LINK8"></a><a name="OLE_LINK7"></a><a
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name="OLE_LINK3"></a><a name="OLE_LINK2"></a><b><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Jonathan Schell</span></font></b><font color=black><span
style='color:black'> is the author of twelve books, most recently <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the
Will of the People</span></i> (2003), which Richard Falk in <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The New York Times</span></i> called “</span></font>the
most impressive argument ever made that there exists a viable and desirable
alternative to a continued reliance on war.<font color=black><span
style='color:black'>” A staff writer at <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>The New Yorker </span></i>from 1967 until 1987, Schell is senior
visiting lecturer at <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Yale</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Yale</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Law</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. Since 1998, he has been
the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute, where he is now based,
and the Peace and Disarmament Correspondent for <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>The Nation</span></i> magazine. He appears often on radio and
television, including <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Fresh Air with Terry
Gross</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Lehrer News Hour</span></i>,
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Charlie Rose Show</span></i>, and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Hardball with Chris Matthews</span></i>. His
recent articles on the nuclear question have appeared in <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Nation, Foreign Affairs</span></i>, and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Harper’s</span></i>, of which he is a
contributing editor. Jonathan Schell lives in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">New York City</st1:City></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Melissa
Green </span></font></b>is the author of two books, a poetry collection, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Squanicook Eclogues</span></i> (Norton), and a
memoir, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Color is the Suffering of Light</span></i>
(Norton). She has received the Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of
America and the Lavan Award from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Academy</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">American Poets</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. Her
poems and essays have appeared in<i><span style='font-style:italic'> The New
York Review of Books</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The New
Republic</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>AGNI</span></i>, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Grand Street</span></i>, and elsewhere. Her
translation of Joseph Brodsky’s verse is included in <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Nativity Poems</span></i>, a selection of
Brodsky’s work that also includes translations by Seamus Heaney, Paul
Muldoon, Derek Walcott, and Richard Wilbur. She very recently completed a new
volume of poems, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Fifty-Two</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Vince
Passaro</span></font></b> is the author of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Violence,
Nudity, Adult Content: A Novel</span></i>, as well as many stories, essays, and
reviews appearing in such publications as <i><span style='font-style:italic'>AGNI</span></i>,
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>GQ</span></i>,<i><span style='font-style:
italic'> Esquire</span></i>,<i><span style='font-style:italic'> Harper’s
Magazine</span></i>,<i><span style='font-style:italic'> The New York Times Magazine</span></i>,<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> The London Sunday Times Magazine</span></i>,<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> O The Oprah Magazine</span></i>,<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> Story</span></i>,<i><span style='font-style:italic'>
Boulevard</span></i>, and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Open City</span></i>.<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> </span></i>He has taught writing and
literature at Columbia, Hofstra, and Adelphi Universities, and this fall will
teach a seminar at New York University on “The Writer in New York,”
where he lives. He works for Yaddo, the artists’ colony in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Saratoga Springs</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">New
York</st1:State></st1:place>. <i><span style='font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Poet <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Rosanna Warren</span></b> is the author, translator,
& editor of many books, including her collections <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Snow Day</span></i> (1981); <em><i><font
face="Times New Roman">Stained Glass</font></i></em> (1993), which won the Lamont
Prize from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Academy</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">American Poets</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>; <em><i><font
face="Times New Roman">Each Leaf Shines Separate</font></i></em> (1985); and
Departure (2003). Among many other grants and prizes, she has won the
Discovery /<i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Nation</span></i> Award, the
Lila Wallace–<em><i><font face="Times New Roman">Reader’s Digest</font></i></em>
Writer’s Award, and the Witter Bynner Prize. In 2004 the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">American</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Academy</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> of Arts and Letters chose
Rosanna Warren for its Award of Merit of Poetry, given once every six years to
an outstanding poet. She is a member of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>AGNI</span></i>’s
Advisory Board.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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organization that relies on additional support from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Boston</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and a <a
href="http://www.bu.edu/agni/about/friends/donors.html">committed roster of
individual donors</a>. We thank them for keeping <em><i><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>AGNI</span></font></i></em> at the frontiers of
literature.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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