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Before the reading begins,
CK Williams, the poet,

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will read on campus
on February 2.

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Please watch for particulars
about the auditorium,

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et cetera.

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That hasn't been decided yet.

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CK Williams on February the 2nd.

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The next two poets to come
under the auspices of the Ruth

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Stephan Poetry Center would
be May Swenson, on Tuesday

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February 10.

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She will read in the Liberal
Arts Auditorium at 8:30.

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And on February 18,
Robert Macy will

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read in this auditorium,
the Modern Languages.

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We are learning to
live in a new language.

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There is no word for return.

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Richard Shelton,
however, has come back.

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It is with the greatest
respect and the greatest

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personal pleasure that I tonight
introduce to you a man who

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needs no introduction from me.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Many of you, like me,
have followed the career

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of this man, who
is smoothly taking

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his place beside the other
great poets of this country.

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Mr. Shelton's
poems have appeared

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in virtually every periodical
of note, including Kayak,

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The Chicago Tribune Magazine,
and the New Yorker magazine,

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to which he is a
regular contributor.

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His first collection,
Journal of Return,

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appeared last fall under
the Kayak Press imprint.

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A second collection,
The Tattooed Desert,

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is anticipated for
publication late this year.

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Both reflect the apparently
inexhaustible originality

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of Dick Shelton's eyesight.

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Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Richard Shelton.

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[APPLAUSE]

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