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		Many in our community are mourning the loss of poet Reetika Vazirani, who on July 16 took her own life and the life of her 2 year-old son, Jehan Vazirani Komunyakaa. Yusef Komunyakaa and Reetika were to move to Georgia this year to teach at Emory University. Vazirani was just 40 years old, and I will miss her. Information about her poetry and work can be found at the Academy of American Poets web site: www.poets.org. * Andalusia, the Milledgeville family farm where Flannery O’Connor lived from 1951 to her death in 1964 at age thirty-nine, is now open to the public. The newly formed “Flannery O’Connor-Andalusia Foundation” has announced that, “in addition to seeing the landscape that inspired so much of O’Connor’s fiction, visitors to the farm will be able to enter the Main House and view Flannery O’Connor’s room and the dining room.” For details, and for information about making a gift to the foundation, please visit their web site at www.andalusiafarm.org. * With the current issue of Arts & Letters, the tenth edition of the journal, we celebrate a milestone. Our first issue appeared in the spring of 1999 and our second and third issues featured our first Arts & Letters prize winners in fiction, poetry, and drama. Congratulations to the fifth annual competition’s prize winners: in this issue, Meghan Clay and Max Garland (fiction and poetry, respectively, selected by Bret Lott and Gerald Stern) and in the spring 2004 issue, Sourabh Chatterjee (drama, selected by Arthur Kopit). Visit our web site at al.gcsu.edu for information about the fall 2003 prizes program, October 27, featuring our winners and final judges in fiction and poetry. In the spring, our drama winner will come to campus for a production of his prize-winning play. * On the cover of this issue is a drawing by a wonderful artist, Laurie Lipton, brought to my attention by Arts & Letters contributor and 2002 drama prize winner Janet Burroway. You can see many more of Lipton’s mesmerizing drawings (several for sale) at www.laurielipton.com. * Congratulations to former Arts & Letters assistant editor Minal Kumari Singh, who has been selected for inclusion in the upcoming Ploughshares “Emerging Writers” issue due out in December. Visit the Ploughshares web site (www.pshares.org) for more information about the special issue, in which her poem “Hunger Was Coming” will appear. * Georgia College & State University’s MFA Program and Arts & Letters will again be a significant sponsor of the 2004 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference in Chicago, March 24-27. Be sure to visit our booth at the book fair. For more information about the conference, visit the AWP web site at www.awpwriter.org. * The editors are working to endow the Arts & Letters prizes, already generating over $25,000 in gifts and pledges. If you are interested in giving to the endowment, please contact me at al@gcsu.edu, or by phone at (478) 445-1289. You can also find out more about the Arts & Letters endowment at our web site: al.gcsu.edu. * As of late July, many people continue to lose their lives in Iraq. My condolences to all families who have lost loved ones in the war, and with them, I hope for a future peace. * Congratulations to Arts & Letters assistant editor Kelly Lundy, who on August 20 gave birth to a healthy baby boy, John Wesley. Kelly plans to return in August of 2004. * Life goes on.
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