A work
of uncommon insight, passion, and deep, searching intelligence, the
memoir is a story -- as seen through the uncannily persuasive eyes of
a child -- of Oz's parents, of Jerusalem in the late 1940s and early
'50s, and of a young, haunted Israeli state. Norton + Company). Chrysostom's Episcopal Church
1424 N. Plank's generosity and leadership in establishing this chair will
provide support for generations of scholarship in all areas of energy policy,"
said Hogan.

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Set in the
dizzying final days of the apartheid regime in his native South
Africa, Eprile's novel, written from his adopted home in Vermont,
explores the curse of a perfect memory in a nation plagued with
rose-colored recall.

Monday, April 4
Old Saint Patrick's Church
700 W.00 for general admission and $10. For additional ticket information and reservations call The Poetry
Foundation at (312) 787.

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In addition to children's literature and biography, Koret Jewish
Book Awards are conferred in the categories of history, fiction, and
philosophy and thought.
Tim Bradford won Koret's Young Writer on Jewish Themes award. Koret judges cited Bradford's achievement in blending
fiction , poetry, photographs, and historical documents into a graceful
and significant story. Woodlawn Avenue

Wednesday, April 6
The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago
Michigan Avenue at Delaware

Thursday, April 7
Saint Pauls United Church of Christ
2335 N .
The Raymond Plank Professorship of Global Energy Policy, designed to
advance teaching and research in the field of global energy policy, was
endowed by Raymond Plank, a pioneer in the energy industry, and Apache
Corporation, the energy company Plank founded and has led for more than 50
years .

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The Poetry Foundation Sponsors Chicago Series of Staged Verse Readings

Each performance will be followed by a discussion of the play led by
former Chicago Tribune chief theatre critic Richard Christiansen., A new professorship devoted to
global energy policy has been created at Harvard's John F. His current research focuses on major energy
industry restructuring, network pricing and access issues, market design, and
privatization in nations worldwide.

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Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral , will be presented in April on
five succeeding nights at five Chicago-area churches.

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Bernard Sahlins ,
legendary co-founder of The Second City, is director and producer of the
series. "This is a work that plays
wonderfully in churches, which of course provide this play with its natural
setting .

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UC Berkeley Prof's New Torah Translation Tops Koret Jewish Book Award Winners

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Each book award carries a $10,000 prize.
Subsequent productions, at venues to be announced, will include Seamus
Heaney's new version of Antigone entitled The Burial at Thebes, Moliere's The
School for Husbands, and Archibald MacLeish's JB.
"Developing effective energy policy in the United States and throughout
the world will be one of the great global challenges of our time," said David
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Zipperstein,
chairman of the Koret Jewish Book Awards advisory board and director
of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University.) won the award for biography. All productions start
at 7:30 P. William Hogan Named First Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
Plank has been an active and generous philanthropist, with a long-standing
interest in advancing education at all levels, promoting the arts, improving
race relations, and enhancing land management in the western United States. As
Founder and Chairman of Apache Corporation , he has helped lead the company to
its present position as one of America's largest global oil and gas
independents.

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News Editors/Book Editors

SAN FRANCISCO----Robert Alter's
path -breaking translation and commentary on The Five Books of Moses
and Amos Oz's celebrated memoir of growing up in the fledgling State
of Israel have been selected as 2004-2005 Koret Jewish Book Award
winners, it was announced today.
Alter, the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative
Literature and Director of Jewish Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley, won a special award for translation and
commentary for The Five Books of Moses (W. W.
In celebration of the 2005 Koret Jewish Book Awards, the Jewish
Community Center of San Francisco will present a "Literary Arts
Mosaic" on Saturday, April 9 and Sunday, April 10, with a series of
free events showcasing the Award winners as well as other celebrated
local authors, including Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) and
Shalom Auslander in Conversation.org
Since their inception in 1998, the Koret Jewish Book Awards have
become the most prestigious awards in Jewish writing, giving
heightened attention to the best Jewish books in the categories of
biography, fiction, history, and philosophy, and now , children's
literature. It has embarked on an ambitious plan to bring the best poetry before
the largest possible audiences. Harriet Monroe's "Open Door"
policy, set forth in Volume I of the magazine , remains the most succinct
statement of POETRY's mission: to print the best poetry written today , in
whatever style, genre, or approach., William Carlos Williams, Carl
Sandburg, and other now -classic authors. "Harvard and
the Kennedy School are fortunate to have a scholar with such in-depth
experience and expertise in the real-world application of energy policy
working on such an important issue.

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For the first time in the program's seven-year history, a prize
was awarded for children 's literature.
The award for philosophy and thought was granted to a courageous
work of self-exploration , Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in
the Jewish Tradition (University of Wisconsin Press ) by Rabbi Steven
Greenberg, an Orthodox, homosexual rabbi and one of the leading
educators at CLAL -- The National Jewish Center for Learning and
Leadership, founded by the renowned Yitz Greenberg (no relation).
"Besides stimulating interest in the wonderful world of verse drama," John
Barr , president of The Poetry Foundation, said, "our goal is to encourage more
work in this genre by theaters and playwrights. In succeeding decades it has
presented -- often for the first time -- works by virtually every significant
poet of the 20th century. Ellwood, dean of the Kennedy School of Government . Hogan, an expert in energy economics and public
policy, will be the inaugural incumbent of the Plank Chair.
"I am pleased that Professor Hogan, an internationally respected scholar
on energy policy, has been named to fill this chair," said Plank.

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The Poetry Foundation, publisher of POETRY magazine, is an independent
literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our
culture. He is also research director of the Harvard
Electricity Policy Group and director of the Repsol YPF - Harvard University
Kennedy School Fellows Program.

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candidate at Oklahoma State University, Bradford is currently
conducting research for a novella on the history of the Velodrome
d'Hiver, the 1942 roundup of French and stateless Jews who were held
in the winter cycling stadium in Paris before being shipped off to
Auschwitz. The first production in the
series, T. Adams Street

Tuesday, April 5
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
5850 S. Orchard

Friday, April 8
St. Dearborn

Jeff Award-winning actor Nicholas Rudall , in the role of Thomas Becket,
will be joined by a cast of eleven leading Chicago actors."
Murder in the Cathedral deals with the conflict between Henry II and
Thomas Becket, his one-time chancellor and drinking buddy.
"We are extremely pleased to be working on this project with Bernard
Sahlins who has directed so many productions of this type," said Stephen
Young, the Foundation 's program director.7070. "I am pleased to support advancements in these critically important
areas by establishing this chair at Harvard.

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M. It continues to print the major English-speaking poets, while
presenting emerging talents, in all their variety."
"Apache has long been committed to corporate social responsibility and how
businesses and other entities can collaborate to advance the public interest
in the area of global energy exploration, extraction, and consumption," said
Plank."
The Plank Chair of Global Energy Policy will be affiliated with the
Kennedy School's Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and
Government.

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The center helps to develop solutions to some of society's most
challenging problems at the interface of business and government.

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The Koret Jewish Book Awards will be presented on Monday, April
11, at an invitation-only ceremony at the Jewish Community Center of
San Francisco. This marks the first year that the Koret Jewish Book
Awards ceremony will be held in San Francisco, home of the Koret
Foundation. The winning Young Writer
(under 40) on Jewish Themes receives a $25,000 award and the
opportunity to spend a quarter in residence at Stanford University,
teaching, researching, and writing."
Professor William W.

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Norton + Company). The winner, The Cats in
Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse, illustrated by Wendy Watson
(Scholastic Books) is a quietly compelling, poetic rendering of a
young girl's resistance to the horror of life in the Warsaw Ghetto,
illuminating the darkness of the time in terms that are gentle and
accessible enough for young readers. This year, nearly 500 publisher submissions were juried by
panels of prominent academics, novelists, and distinguished writers. In recent years, more than
a third of the authors published in the magazine have been young writers
appearing for the first time.
Apache Corporation (NYSE, Nasdaq: APA) is a $24 billion company with
operations in the United States, Canada, Australia, Egypt, the United Kingdom
North Sea, China and Argentina .

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Tony Eprile produced the fiction category winner with his debut
novel, The Persistence of Memory (W. The
book is a learned, accessible, and unflinchingly honest theological
work that resulted from the author's decade-long struggle to reconcile
his religious beliefs and his sexual orientation , and conveys his
evolution to resolution.

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For its soaring poetry and dramatic excitement , Murder in the Cathedral is
considered to be Eliot's finest dramatic work. In the coming year, the Foundation will
sponsor a recitation contest in the schools, a major new poetry website, and
an unprecedented study to understand poetry's place in American culture.

Kennedy School Establishes Professorship to Address the World's Vast Energy Challenges

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CHICAGO, The Poetry Foundation, publisher of
POETRY magazine, is pleased to announce the premiere of Poetry on Stage, a new
series of dramatic readings of verse plays. Henry, seeking to
control the church and its revenues, appointed Becket as Archbishop of
Canterbury.

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"The
translation is outstanding, and the culmination of a lifetime of the
highest level of scholarly achievement," said Steven J. Eliot, Ezra Pound,
Marianne Moore , Wallace Stevens, H. D.

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Oz's A Tale of Love and Darkness, translated from the Hebrew by
Nicolas de Lange (Harcourt, Inc.S. But once in his new office Becket fought for the church's
autonomy, a move that he knew would enrage Henry and lead to disaster.

Kennedy School of
Government to help address the enormous challenges of meeting worldwide energy
needs in a timely, secure, environmentally responsible and economic manner,
the Kennedy School announced today.

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In the history category, Elisheva Baumgarten's Mothers and
Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe (Princeton University
Press) is an original and fascinating portrait of the intimacy of
Jewish family, motherhood, and childhood in the context of life in
medieval Christian Europe. On average, the magazine receives over 90,000
submissions per year, from around the world. "I am confident that the
Plank Chair of Global Energy Policy will lead to a better understanding of the
complex environmental, economic , and political issues related to energy
policy.

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For an invitation to the April 11 ceremony, please contact the
Koret Foundation at kjba@koretfoundation.
Tickets are $20. S.
Hogan, who has taught at the Kennedy School for 27 years, serves as
director of Graduate Studies for the PhD programs in Public Policy and in
Political Economy and Government.

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Previous years' awards ceremonies have been held in New
York. A detailed schedule of events is
available at www.

Founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912, POETRY is the oldest monthly
devoted to verse in the English -speaking world.

POETRY has always been independent, unaffiliated with any institution or
university -- or with any single poetic or critical movement or aesthetic
school.

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