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		<title>My Gaelic Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I revised my St. Patrick's Day post from last year and posted it at Fictionaut.   A commenter there bestowed on me the Gaelic version of Elizabeth....]]></description>
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		<title>Nominated for Pushcart Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kudos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I found my name on a list of Pushcart Prize nominees at The Gettysburg Review.  I published "Natural Births," a chapter from Sacred Threads, in their Spring 2009 issue....]]></description>
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		<title>First Wednesday Reading at Blackbird Wineshop</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/03/first-wednesday-reading-at-blackbird-wineshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, April 7 from 7-9 pm, I'll be joining Peter Sears, Jackie Shannon-Hollis and Brian Christopher for a reading and wine-tasting co-hosted by Oregon Literary Review and Blackbird Wine Shop  in Portland, Oregon....]]></description>
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		<title>Another Bovine Poem Finds a Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The High Desert Journal has accepted another poem of mine, this time for Issue 11 of their print journal, due out in April.  Although it doesn't focus exclusively on cows, my sestina, "Now That I've Moved Inland," does feature them in every stanza....]]></description>
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		<title>Another Poem Finds a Home</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/03/another-poem-finds-a-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Recent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maturity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had my first poem published in January and am proud to announce that another poem, "What the Photo Shows," has been accepted for publication....]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of International Women&#8217;s Day in Nepal</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/03/memories-of-international-womens-day-in-nepal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four months after I gave birth to my son in Nepal, I celebrated my very first International Women's Day in 1988 in Gunjanagar, a village in western Chitwan District. It was also Gunjangar's first time to organize an event for that day.  I describe the scene in Sacred Threads, my ethnographic memoir-in-progress....]]></description>
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		<title>Rainbow in Joseph Canyon</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/03/rainbow-in-joseph-canyon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Northwest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pacific Northwest travel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A photo from the Joseph Canyon overlook in Northeastern Oregon...]]></description>
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		<title>Dances With Titles</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/02/dances-with-titles/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/02/dances-with-titles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I work hard to polish the content of my literary nonfiction and poetry but don't always give the same attention to titles....]]></description>
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		<title>Bushy-Tailed Woodrat: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/02/bushy-tailed-woodrat/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/02/bushy-tailed-woodrat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, we drive to NE Oregon to spend a week or so in our yurt (and a few other places).  The creature I fear most on this trip is not the cougar, wolf or porcupine.  It's much smaller.  Most females and the younger males of the species could fit into the palm of my hand....]]></description>
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		<title>American Pika: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/02/american-pika/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/02/american-pika/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The calls and whistles (listen below) of the American pika (Ochotona princeps) are one of the delights of hiking into remote alpine areas --  and such a refreshing escape from the noise of daily news, courtroom dramas, and political debates.  Now the tiny rabbit relative may unwittingly generate press releases, research reports and legal briefs higher than its hay piles....]]></description>
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