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  1  1                HOUSE RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2             BY  MASCHER, MYERS, AND DODERER
  1  3 A House Resolution honoring University of Iowa
  1  4    graduate and faculty member Ms. Jorie Graham
  1  5    for winning the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for poetry
  1  6    and for bringing renown to the University of
  1  7    Iowa Writers' Workshop and to Iowa City.
  1  8    WHEREAS, Ms. Jorie Graham received a master's
  1  9 degree from the University of Iowa's distinguished
  1 10 Writers' Workshop in 1978 and has been a member of the
  1 11 University of Iowa faculty since 1983; and
  1 12    WHEREAS, Ms. Jorie Graham was chosen as the
  1 13 recipient of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for poetry from a
  1 14 group of three finalists, all of whom had professional
  1 15 and academic ties to the University of Iowa Writers'
  1 16 Workshop; and
  1 17    WHEREAS, the Pulitzer Prize is America's most
  1 18 prestigious writing award; and
  1 19    WHEREAS, the Pulitzer Prize awarded to Ms.  Jorie
  1 20 Graham is the twenty-third literary-based Pulitzer
  1 21 Prize won by a University of Iowa faculty member or
  1 22 student; and
  1 23    WHEREAS, the work for which Ms. Jorie Graham won a
  1 24 Pulitzer Prize, "The Dream of the United Field:  New
  1 25 and Selected Poems", is a collection of poems
  1 26 exploring events in Iowa City, such as the flooding of
  1 27 the Iowa River and the University of Iowa marching
  1 28 band's practices; and
  1 29    WHEREAS, the Pulitzer Prize awarded to Ms. Jorie
  1 30 Graham is the latest in a series of writing honors and
  2  1 awards bestowed upon Ms. Jorie Graham, including the
  2  2 1990 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Whiting
  2  3 Foundation Award, the American Academy of Poets Prize,
  2  4 the Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets,
  2  5 the Connors Prize from the Paris Review, and grants
  2  6 from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe
  2  7 Institute, the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, and the
  2  8 National Endowment for the Arts; NOW THEREFORE,
  2  9    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
  2 10 That Ms. Jorie Graham be congratulated for winning the
  2 11 1996 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and bringing honor and
  2 12 distinction upon the University of Iowa Writers'
  2 13 Workshop.
  2 14    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That an official copy of
  2 15 this Resolution be prepared for presentation to Ms.
  2 16 Jorie Graham.  
  2 17 LSB 4468HH 76
  2 18 kah/jj/8
     

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