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351 Pleasant Street, PMB 222
Northampton, MA 01060
January 20, 2002




Yale Series of Younger Poets
Yale University Press
P.O. Box 209040
New Haven, CT 06520-9040

Dear Editor:

Enclosed you will find my manuscript, A Talent for Sadness, which I am submitting to the Yale Series of Younger Poets. My work has appeared in journals such as Poetry, The New Criterion, Southern Poetry Review, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Poetry Motel, Tucumcari Literary Review, Orange Willow Review, The Penwood Review, Pavement Saw, Hanging Loose, First Things, The Lyric, The Christian Century, Chasm, The Saint Ann's Review, Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought, Windhover, Curbside Review, Cider Press Review, A New Song, Literature and Belief, U.S. Catholic, The Rose & Thorn, About Such Things and Grasslands Review, and in Best American Poetry 1990.

I have won awards for my poetry from the Poetry Society of America, Harvard University and others. I was a finalist for the 1998 Yale Series of Younger Poets, the "Discovery/The Nation 1999" poetry competition and the 2000 Morton Marr Poetry Contest from Southwest Review.

I have enclosed the entry fee and a SASE for your response.

Sincerely,


[signature]


Jendi Reiter
866-946-9748
jendi@jendireiter.com



                                                                                                                                                                                                                               




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