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Recently, the balance of this column has swung toward prodding you with questions and challenges, but triumphs and good news are a lot of fun to share, too, so I’d like to tell you about all the exciting happenings at HCN.

  begins her tenure this month as the new director of the University of Utah’s American West Center, which researches the history and culture of a collection of poems and essays about the transcontinental railroad, was released in May by Copper Canyon Press.

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