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Matty Glasgow and Diana Clarke to read at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Matty Glasgow and Diana Clarke to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 15th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Matty Glasgow and Diana Clarke will read from theirworks on Wednesday, January 15th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary as part of the City Art Reading Series and the Utah Humanities CouncilBook Festival. This event is free and open to the public. MattyLayne Glasgow is the author of deciduous qween (Red Hen Press,2019), selected by Richard Blanco for the 2018 Benjamin Saltman Award. Hisrecent poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Ecotone,Missouri Review, Poetry Daily, Houston Public Media, andelsewhere. He is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University ofUtah where he serves as the Wasatch Writers in the Schools Coordinator and theAssistant Editor for Quarterly West. In his downtime, you canfind him worshiping his holy trinity of trees, drag queens, and Kacey Musgraves. Diana Clarke isa New Zealander pursuing her PhD at the University of Utah. Her work hasappeared in Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her debutnovel, Thin Girls, is forthcoming from Harper Collins. Art is sponsored by theUtah Arts Council, Catalyst, the SaltLake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the UtahHumanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long

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Natanya Ann Pulley and Nathan Hauke to read at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Natanya Ann Pulley and Nathan Hauke to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 8th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Natanya Ann Pulley andNathan Hauke will read from theirworks on Wednesday, January 8th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary as part of the City Art Reading Series and the Utah Humanities CouncilBook Festival. This event is free and open to the public. Natanya Ann Pulley is a Diné writer and her clans are Kinyaa’áani (ToweringHouse People) and Táchii’nii (Red Running into Water People). She’s publishedin Waxwing, Monkeybicycle, Entropy, and TheOffing (among others). Natanya is the founding editor of HairstreakButterfly Review and teaches texts by Native American writers, FictionWriting, and Experimental Forms at Colorado College. Her debut storycollection With Teeth was published by New Rivers Press (Oct.2019) and her writing can be found at natanyapulley.com. Nathan Hauke is the author of Indian SummerRecycling, EveryLiving One (Horse Less Press, 2015), In the Marble of YourAnimal Eyes (Publication Studio, 2013), and four chapbooks. His poemshave appeared widely in journals, including DenverQuarterly, New American Writing, Colorado Review, AmericanLetters & Commentary, Interim, Typo, 4Ink7: An Unction from the HolyOne, and Zen Monster. They have beenanthologized in Hick Poetics (Lost RoadsPress, 2015) and The Arcadia Project: North AmericanPostmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta Press, 2012). City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library,Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the Utah Humanities Council as part ofthe Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long

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Holiday Open tonight
by CityArt＠thelibrary 18 Dec '19

18 Dec '19

Holiday Open Reading at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 17th 7:00—9:00 P.M. City Art invites you to a holiday open reading on December 17th at 7:00 at theSalt Lake Public Library. Bring yourcider and cookies, your poems, your prose, your open minds and hearts for anight of open readings. It is a potluckof literature, so it all depends on what you bring as your hot dish or yourlovely desert. See you there. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund. The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations. Joel Long

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Reminder:City Art Presents Melissa Bond and John Louviere
by CityArt＠thelibrary 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents Melissa Bond and JohnLouviere Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 11th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writer MelissaBond and singer/songwriter John Louviere will read and perform their work on December11th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City ArtReading Series. Melissa Bondbegan her literary career in Salt Lake City 1995 by starting the city’s veryfirst Poetry Slam despite death threats and the claims that she’d be escortedto the border for such heresy. In 2002, she won the Mayor’s Artist Award forthe Literary Arts. In 2006, City Weekly magazine handed her a plaque that saidBest Poet in Motion for tearing out Katrina soaked drywall with her bare handsand putting together a multimedia show about said drywall and the people thatno longer lived inside. She was a finalist in the Western Publisher’sAssociation Maggie Awards for Profile writing in 2009. She then had twochildren in quick succession and everything that had nothing to do with keepinginfants alive stopped. “The Future Is Now” is the latest album bysinger/songwriter, John Louviere,and, by far, his best to date. The album was producedby multi-instrumentalist, collaborator, and recordingengineer Andrew Goldring at Soundcave Studios in Salt Lake City, Utah(http://soundcavestudio.com/). Louviere seems to have found a sweet spotin his collaboration with Goldring, as there are no misses on thisfine album. True to form, though, his brand of heartache matchedwith his understated, emotional, and melodic delivery continues to beas unique as it is beautiful. The release of his 2014 EP, Longest Year, marked atransition in the life of singer/songwriter John Louviere. “What I wanted wasto have a batch of songs that expressed true transformation - some sort ofpositive change or awakening. And in reality - it's exactly what I got: thecourage to tell the real story of how my life has been these past number ofyears.” Known for his honest, and witty stage presence, Louviere is aiming forthe heart. Twenty years in the making, he is emerging as a modern-daytroubadour and storyteller with lyrics that are as poignant as they are poetic.From his yearning, melodic voice and rich guitar, you will hear the influencesMark Kozelek, Bruce Cockburn, and Damien Jurado. “I’m a folk musician, I getthat. And true to folk musicians, I’m a storyteller. I just happen to tellpretty sad stories. Which suits me just fine.” Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. CityArt is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council,Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, andPark Fund. The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations. Joel Long

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JP Grasser and Michael Kroesche at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com JP Grasserand Michael Kroesche at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 4th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets JP Grasser and Michael Kroesche will read from their work December 4that the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City ArtReading Series. A former Wallace StegnerFellow, JP Grasser is a PhD candidate at the University of Utah, where heserves as Editor-in-Chief for Quarterly West. His latest work is forthcomingfrom Best New Poets 2019, Blackbird, Crazyhorse, Copper Nickel, and NarrativeMagazine, among others. Michael Kroesche is a Salt LakeCity native who recently returned home in December of 2018 following a decadespent writing, publishing, teaching, and working all over the world. Fromteaching ESL in Guangzhou and translating Stéphane Mallarmé’s poetry fromFrench into English in Québec to teaching at the University of Nevada, LasVegas and working intensely in academic, popular, and community levels of LasVegas’ literary and creative communities, writing has managed to remain themost consistent aspect of his experience. While having published short fiction,academic work, and creative nonfiction in a number of journals and presentingit at various events such as the annual Pop Culture Conference in Las Vegas, heworks primarily in poetry. Most recently he has spent the last 5 years workingon a manuscript about grief and Aokigahara, the Japanese “suicide forest” or“sea of trees”. Poetry and creative nonfiction from this work have beenpresented at a number of readings and conferences and has appeared inpublications such as The Colorado Review, The Literary Review, among others,and he was also interviewed by BBC 4’s Whistledown productions in July of 2018about Aokigahara for a long-form piece they were producing about the forest.When he isn’t writing or working in his new career at Capstone Title andEscrow, Michael enjoys cooking, playing piano, boxing, performing at standupcomedy open mics, and spending time with his family and his significant other,Carly, and her cat Lyle. Most featured readings are followed by an openreading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake CityArts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and theZoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Joel Long

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Re: City Art Presents Katherine Indermaur and Jacqueline Balderrama
by CityArt＠thelibrary 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

Note: This Reading, City Art Presents Katherine Indermaur and Jacqueline Balderrama, is on November 13th at 7 PM. Joel Long On Monday, November 11, 2019, 09:41:24 PM MST, Joel Long <joeltlong(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Contact:City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents KatherineIndermaur and Jacqueline Balderrama Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 6th 7:00—9:00 P.M. WritersKatherine Indermaur and JacquelineBalderrama will read from their work November 13that 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City ArtReading Series. Katherine Indermaur is the author of the chapbook Pulse (GhostCity Press, 2018). Tommy Pico selected her poem “Girl DescendsAsunder” as the winner of the Black Warrior Review 2019Contest, and her manuscript of the same name was a finalist for the 2019 Gasher JournalFirst-Book Scholarship. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Alpinist,Bad Pony, Entropy, Frontier Poetry, Ghost Proposal, New Delta Review,Oxidant|Engine, Sugar House Review, and elsewhere. She holds aBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA fromColorado State University, where she won the 2018 Academy of AmericanPoets Prize and was the managing editor for Colorado Review. Shelives in Salt Lake City, where she works for the Southern Utah WildernessAlliance. Jacqueline Balderrama grew up in SouthernCalifornia and has a BA from UC Riverside and a MFA from Arizona StateUniversity. While at ASU, she received VirginiaG. Piper Center Fellowships for international writing residenciesin Asia and was involved in the Letras Latinas literaryinitiative and the ASU Prison Education Program. Balderrama currentlylives and teaches in Salt Lake City where she is a doctoral candidate in literatureand creative writing at the University of Utah. Her poems have received the2013 Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize, won a 2019 Intro Journal Award, and beenpublished in Blackbird, Poet Lore and otherjournals. She serves as co-poetry editor for Quarterly West and as poetryeditor for Iron City Magazine | | | | | | | | | | | Iron City Magazine | | | . Over thepast six years, she has been working to reduce her waste and be mindful of theimpacts human activity has on the planet. Her chapbook, Nectar and Small, isforthcoming from FinishingLine Press. The event is freeand open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council,the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audiencedonations. Joel Long

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City Art Presents Katherine Indermaur and Jacqueline Balderrama
by CityArt＠thelibrary 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

Contact:City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents KatherineIndermaur and Jacqueline Balderrama Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 6th 7:00—9:00 P.M. WritersKatherine Indermaur and JacquelineBalderrama will read from their work November 13that 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City ArtReading Series. Katherine Indermaur is the author of the chapbook Pulse (GhostCity Press, 2018). Tommy Pico selected her poem “Girl DescendsAsunder” as the winner of the Black Warrior Review 2019Contest, and her manuscript of the same name was a finalist for the 2019 Gasher JournalFirst-Book Scholarship. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Alpinist,Bad Pony, Entropy, Frontier Poetry, Ghost Proposal, New Delta Review,Oxidant|Engine, Sugar House Review, and elsewhere. She holds aBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA fromColorado State University, where she won the 2018 Academy of AmericanPoets Prize and was the managing editor for Colorado Review. Shelives in Salt Lake City, where she works for the Southern Utah WildernessAlliance. Jacqueline Balderrama grew up in SouthernCalifornia and has a BA from UC Riverside and a MFA from Arizona StateUniversity. While at ASU, she received VirginiaG. Piper Center Fellowships for international writing residenciesin Asia and was involved in the Letras Latinas literaryinitiative and the ASU Prison Education Program. Balderrama currentlylives and teaches in Salt Lake City where she is a doctoral candidate in literatureand creative writing at the University of Utah. Her poems have received the2013 Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize, won a 2019 Intro Journal Award, and beenpublished in Blackbird, Poet Lore and otherjournals. She serves as co-poetry editor for Quarterly West and as poetryeditor for Iron City Magazine | | | | | | | | | | | Iron City Magazine | | | . Over thepast six years, she has been working to reduce her waste and be mindful of theimpacts human activity has on the planet. Her chapbook, Nectar and Small, isforthcoming from FinishingLine Press. The event is freeand open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council,the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audiencedonations. Joel Long

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City Art Presents Robin Becker and Natasha Sajé
by CityArt＠thelibrary 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Robin Becker and Natasha Sajé Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 6th 7:00—9:00 P.M. WritersRobin Becker and Natasha Sajé will read from their work November 6that 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City ArtReading Series. Poet Robin Becker was born inPhiladelphia and earned a BA and MA at Boston University. She taught for manyyears at the MIT before returning to Pennsylvania in 1994, where she is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Penn State. Becker’s manycollections of poetry include Personal Effects (1977); Backtalk (1982); Giacometti’s Dog (1990); All-American Girl (1996), which won a Lambda Literary Award; The Horse Fair (2000); Domain of Perfect Affection (2006); Tiger Heron (2014); and The Black Bear Inside Me (2018). Becker’srange of subjects has been described as a “vibrant miscellany.” Her poemsreflect her Russian-Jewish heritage and queer identity, her interest in arthistory and visual art, the experience of growing up in 1950s America, and thelegacy of the 1960s. In The Horse Fair, her subjects range from the painter Rosa Bonheur to theTorah and personal tragedies. Poet Kathleen Aguero has said that Becker’s poemsare “richly populated by friends, lovers, family” as they “chronicle a searchfor community.”Becker’s work has appeared widely in magazines andjournals, including American Poetry Review, the Boston Globe, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner. She is acontributing editor to Ploughshares and poetry editor for the Women’s Review of Books, where she writes a column called “Field Notes.” Beckeralso teaches workshops at the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown. She has wonfellowships from the Bunting Institute, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation,and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2000 she was honored with PennState's George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching, and she served asPenn State Laureate in 2010-11. Poet NatashaSajé is the author of the collections Vivarium (Tupelo 2014), RedUnder the Skin (Pittsburgh, 1994), and Bend (Tupelo Press, 2004),and many essays. Her work has been honored with the Robert Winner and Alice Faydi Castagnola Awards, a Fulbright fellowship, the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize,and the Utah Book Award. Saje’s poems, reviews,and essays have appeared in many periodicals, including The Henry James Review, American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, KenyonReview, New Republic, Poetry, Paris Review, Gettysburg Review,Ploughshares, Rhino, Shenandoah, The Writer’s Chronicle, and The New York Times. Sajé is a professor of English atWestminster College in Salt Lake City, and has been teaching in the VermontCollege M.F.A. in Writing program since 1996. The event is free and open to thepublic. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt LakeCity Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audiencedonations. Joel Long

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City Art Presents Courtney Craggett, Rob Carney, and Sunni Brown Wilkinson
by CityArt＠thelibrary 21 Oct '19

21 Oct '19

Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents Courtney Craggett, Rob Carney, and Sunni BrownWilkinson Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 23rd 7:00—9:00 P.M. CourtneyCraggett, Rob Carney, and Sunni Brown Wilkinson will share new work from theirrecent books published by Black Lawrence Press, 7:00 PM, October 23rd atthe Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series. Courtney Craggett holds a PhD in English with specializations increative writing and multi-ethnic American literature from the University ofNorth Texas, where she taught English and served as the American LiteraryReview’s Assistant Fiction Editor. Her short stories appear in The Pinch,Mid-American Review, Washington Square Review, Booth, Juked, Word Riot, andMonkeybicycle, among others, and were featured on Ploughshares’ blog. Herreviews appear in American Microreviews and Interviews. Twice nominated for aPushcart, Courtney is the editors’ choice winner of the 2014 Sherwood AndersonAward and the winner of The Pinch’s Spring 2017 Featured Contributor Award. Sheis an Assistant Professor of English at Weber State University. Rob Carney is originally from Washington state. He is the author of fourprevious books, including 88 Maps (Lost Horse Press 2015), which was named afinalist for the Washington State Book Award, and Weather Report (SomondocoPress 2006), which won the Utah Book Award for Poetry. His work has appeared inCave Wall, Poecology, Sugar House Review, Terrain: A Journal of the Built andNatural Environments, and dozens of other journals, as well as the Nortonanthology Flash Fiction Forward (2006). In 2014 he received the RobinsonJeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for seven of the poems included in hisforthcoming collection The Book of Sharks. He is a Professor of English andLiterature at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City. Sunni Brown Wilkinson’s poetry has been published in Crab OrchardReview, Adirondack Review, BODY, Sugar House Review, Cimarron Review, SouthernIndiana Review and other journals and anthologies and has been nominated fortwo Pushcarts. She holds an MFA from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers atEastern Washington University and teaches at Weber State University. She livesin northern Utah with her husband and three young sons. This event is made possible with support from Weber State University LindquistCollege of Arts and Humanities, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities.. The event is freeand open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council,the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audiencedonations. Joel Long

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City Art Presents Z.G. Tomaszewski and Paisley Rekdal
by CityArt＠thelibrary 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents Z.G. Tomaszewskiand Paisley Rekdal Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 16th 7:00—9:00 P.M. City Art ispleased to welcome Z.G. Tomszewski and Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal onWednesday, October 16th at 7:00 PM in the 4th Floor Conference Room of the CityLibrary. Z.G. Tomaszewski has three published works;"River Nocturne," “All Things Dusk ” an International Poetry Prizewinner selected by Li-Young Lee and published by Hong Kong University Press in2015 as well as the chapbook “Mineral Whisper” (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Tomaszewskicurrently resides in the midwest lending his hands to preventative maintenancein historical spaces. Because traveling tends to offer such a wealth ofcreative inspiration and fresh perspective, he spends much of his free timeapplying for artist residencies, reading (and re-reading) books from hisprivate home-library, occasionally stopping to write on hiking trails andgiving readings as well as poetry lectures when time allows. When there’s apause in that routine, Tomaszewski can be found making music, tending to thegarden, listening to the porch chimes with his lips to a cup of perfumed greentea, rummaging through thrift stores with a ponderous agenda and going for longdrives exercising his northern-eyes pointing out every red-tail hawk, deer andsandhill crane in sight to his lover. Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book ofessays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir,Intimate; and six books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants;The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 KingsleyTufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; Imaginary Vessels, finalist forthe 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award; andNightingale. She is also the author of The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime,and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. Appropriate: A Provocation, a book-lengthessay examining cultural appropriation, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship,the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a CivitellaRanieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, PushcartPrizes (2009, 2013), Narrative’s Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative NonfictionPrize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays haveappeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The KenyonReview, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series(2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others. Sheteaches at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor ofthe community web project Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was namedUtah’s Poet Laureate. This event is made possible with support fromCity Art, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. Mostfeatured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by theUtah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund. The eventis free and open to the public. Joel Long

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