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WSU Press at AWP Annual Conference

February 29, 2012

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Feb 9: francine j. harris at the U-Club
Feb 12: Richard Bak at Livonia Public Library; Bill Harris at the 20th Annual Alain Locke Awards
Feb 18: Jack Driscoll at Horizon Books
Feb 27: Vievee Francis in the @ Noon Reading Series, WSU Campus

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Founded in 1941, Wayne State University Press is a leading publisher of Great Lakes books, Judaica, and African American studies, as well as a wide range of other scholarly and general interest titles.

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