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Start: 7:00 pm
Isolated, impoverished, primitive mountain village of La Vista called them “miracles.” For seven years on the first of March some villager suffered tragedy. A terrible misfortune -- softened for a victim only by neighbors’ caring compassion – it created miraculous beans-and-corn prosperity for a year in normally starving La Vista. Another Miracle time is approaching. A young man rides down the mountain and announces to village leaders he’s a teacher, ordered by the government’s anti-illiteracy campaign to start a school in La Vista. He’s exiled there for leading student riots, and wants only to go back to college. He's confused as villagers ask him “How can we eat reading and writing?”
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Ingrid Wendt's first book of poems,Moving the House, was selected by William Stafford for the New Poetsof America Series. Subsequent award winning books include Singing theMozart Requiem, The Angle of Sharpest Ascending, and Surgeonfish. Wendt co-edited In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts and From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry. Her most recent book ofpoems, Evensong, was published in 2011. Ingrid Wendt lives in Eugene,
Ralph Salisbury’s tenth book ofpoems, Light from a Bullet Hole: Poems New & Selected 1950-2008, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. It was published the same year as his third book of stories, The Indian Who Bombed Berlin. Both his fiction and poetry evoke his Cherokee-Shawnee-Irish-English-American heritage and his life as a questing human in a violent world.
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