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  • ABOUT
  • WORKS
    • PASSAGES
    • TESEMINI
    • WALKING SPAIN
    • Endless Pressure, Endlessly Applied
    • LICHEN SONGS >
      • Notes for Lichen Songs
    • BEAVER'S FIRE
    • KEEPING THE SWARM
    • FRED HILL—A PHOTOGRAPHER'S LIFE
    • SOLDIER TO ADVOCATE
    • DARKROOM SOLDIER
    • POETRY IN MOTION
    • WEST OF PARADISE
    • ZOO POEMS
    • OREGON LITERATURE SERIES
    • CHINESE COUPLETS
    • MARKING THE MAGIC CIRCLE
    • OFF THE MAIN ROAD
    • SUNDAY AFTERNOON
  • REVIEWS
    • Walking Spain REVIEWS
    • Lichen Songs REVIEWS
    • Beaver's Fire REVIEWS
    • Keeping the Swarm REVIEWS
    • Soldier to Advocate REVIEWS
    • Darkroom Soldier REVIEWS
    • West of Paradise REVIEWS
    • Marking the Magic Circle REVIEWS
    • Off the Main Road REVIEWS
    • Sunday Afternoon REVIEWS
  • EXCERPTS
    • West of Paradise EXCERPTS
    • Marking the Magic Circle EXCERPTS
    • Off the Main Road EXCERPTS
    • Sunday Afternoon EXCERPTS
  • INTERVIEWS
    • 2021—FILM
    • 2016
    • 2006
    • 2000
    • 1999
    • 1997
    • 1996
    • 1994
    • 1978
    • 1971
  • EVENTS
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PASSAGES: 
Distinguished Teaching Award (1961–2002)


This chapbook gathers three texts all formally delivered by George Venn, a distinguished writer, editor, and poet who was retiring after 29 years teaching at Eastern Oregon University: a poetic acceptance speech, a formal published lecture, and a high school commencement address.

CONTENTS:

PASSAGE I:
Distinguished Teaching Award Poem
June 15, 2002 

PASSAGE II:
Fall Academic Convocation Lecture
October 1, 2002

PASSAGE III:
Wallowa High School Commencement Address
May 20, 1987
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