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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 872
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WHEREAS, The Texas Commission on the Arts has announced the |
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appointment of Carol Coffee Reposa as the 2018 State Poet |
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Laureate; and |
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WHEREAS, The Texas State Artist designations are awarded |
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to a select group of individuals to honor the exceptional quality |
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of their work and their outstanding commitment to the arts in |
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Texas; and |
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WHEREAS, A truly worthy recipient of this prestigious |
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distinction, Carol Coffee Reposa is the author of four highly |
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regarded volumes of poetry--At the Border: Winter Lights, The |
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Green Room, Facts of Life, and Underground Musicians--and her |
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poems, reviews, and essays have been accepted for publication in |
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such journals as the Atlanta Review, the Evansville Review, the |
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Texas Observer, and Southwestern American Literature; and |
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WHEREAS, Carol Coffee Reposa is the winner of the Guadalupe |
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Cultural Arts Center Poetry Contest, and she has earned the San |
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Antonio Public Library Arts and Letters Award, along with three |
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Fulbright-Hays Fellowships and three nominations for the |
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Pushcart Prize; a professor emerita at San Antonio College since |
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2010, she currently serves as the poetry editor of Voices de la |
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Luna, and she was recently elected to the Texas Institute of |
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Letters; and |
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WHEREAS, Widely admired for her immense talent, Carol |
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Coffee Reposa has made important contributions to her chosen |
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field of artistic endeavor, and in so doing, she has enriched the |
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cultural vitality of the Lone Star State; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 85th |
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Legislature, hereby congratulate Carol Coffee Reposa on her |
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selection as the 2018 State Poet Laureate and extend to her |
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sincere best wishes for continued success; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared for |
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Carol Coffee Reposa as an expression of high regard from the |
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Texas Senate. |
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Menéndez |
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President of the Senate |
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I hereby certify that the |
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above Resolution was adopted by |
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the Senate on May 24, 2017. |
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Secretary of the Senate |
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Member, Texas Senate |