Matters of Gravity, The Newsletter of the Topical Group on Gravitation of the American Physical Society, Volume 34, Fall 2009

GGR News: New Matters of Gravity Correspondents, by David Garfinkle we hear that…, by David Garfinkle Research Briefs: Numerical Relativity Studies of Black Hole Kicks, by Pablo Laguna Conference Reports: AbhayFest, by Chris Beetle Eastern Gravity Meeting, by Jeff Winicour Benasque Workshop on Gravity, by Roberto Emparan and Veronika Hubeny Workshop on the Fluid-Gravity Correspondence, by Mukund Rangamani