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      FEATURE | January 31, 2003
      An Interview with Steve 
        Scafidi  
        On September 28, 2002, Blackbird correspondent Leslie Shiel met 
        with poet Steve Scafidi, winner of the Fifth Annual Levis Reading Prize, 
        at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. They spoke at length 
        about the making of Scafidi's first book, Sparks from a Nine-Pound 
        Hammer, and about the role of life in poetry and the role of poetry 
        in life. 
      Part 
        I   
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        Part II   
         |  Transcript 
       
         Contributor's 
        notes 
           Levis Remembered 
        
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