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PAG LIN 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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