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Good evening.

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And welcome to the first
reading of this 1972 season.

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Two weeks from
tonight, Donald Hall

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will read in this auditorium.

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And three weeks from
tonight, Tom Gunn will read.

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If you did not receive
one of our fliers,

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please see me after
the reading, and I'll

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give you several thousand.

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I'm required to remind
you that smoking is not

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allowed in this auditorium.

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Please come to the Poetry
Center after tonight's

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reading to have punch and
cookies with Florence.

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If you have not been
to the Poetry Center

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it's the corner of Speedway and
Highland 1086 North Highland.

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And the reception will
be on the South Lawn.

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Florence Anthony is the
youngest visiting poet

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to come to the
University to read.

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She read here several years
ago as an undergraduate.

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She received her bachelor's
in oriental studies

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from the University
of Arizona, then

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went to University of
California at Irvine

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for her master's of Fine
Arts in creative writing.

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In spite of her youth,
she's very widely published.

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Her work has appeared
recently in an anthology

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called Just What
This Country Needs,

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Another Poetry Anthology.

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And I didn't make that up.

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That's real.

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Her work will appear in
volume 2 of Naked Poetry soon.

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She's an accomplished reader.

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She's even read for
the BBC, by tape.

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And it's my pleasure to
welcome her to our campus again

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tonight.

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Miss Florence Anthony.

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Thank you.