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And I'm happy that you all found
your way here at this hour.

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Tucson Weekly announced that
it would be at 8 o'clock

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this evening, so I hope
not too many people

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are disappointed tonight.

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Writers at Work has a
reading this coming Wednesday

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in this auditorium.

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Their visitor is Tim O'Brien,
and the MFA student reading

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with him is Heather Aronson.

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And our next reading
was originally

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scheduled for this
Wednesday night.

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And when I realized I'd
goofed and scheduled

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against Writers at Work, we
moved the student reading

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to Thursday Night.

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So it's Thursday the
14th in the art museum.

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And the readers will be Kevin
Conder, Leslie Heywood, Bill

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Marsh, and Valeria Martinez.

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That's 8:00 PM, Thursday night.

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And then our last
reading for the semester

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will be the following
Wednesday night, the 20th.

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And we'll honor the contributors
to Persona Magazine.

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There's another reading next
week, Saturday at 2 o'clock

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at the Poetry Center
lawn, where you'll all

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be going this afternoon
after the reading.

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And that's, among other
things, celebration.

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And Elizabeth Evans will be
reading from her fiction.

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Elizabeth read for
us last semester.

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If you missed her, then
she's a wonderful reader.

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And there will be
poetry readings

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by the, among other things,
organizers, Bill Marsh, Roger

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Hecht, Michael Magoolaghan,
and Becky Byrkit,

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that Saturday at 2:00
PM in the afternoon.

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Let's hope it's cooler
and not so windy.

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Please come to the Poetry
Center after the reading

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and meet Tomas and
Monica Transtromer.

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We moved the
refreshments indoors

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where it's cooler
and not so windy.

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If you haven't been
to the Poetry Center,

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we're at the corner of
Speedway and Highland,

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1086 North Highland.

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It's exactly two
blocks that way.

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This afternoon's
reception is especially

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to thank those of
you who have been

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so generous to give to
the Poetry Center Friends

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organization.

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If you've not given,
we hope you'll

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want to support us today.

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Of course, we don't expect
students to give us money.

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It's most unusual that
we are able to present

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a long series like this
without charging any admission.

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And the day we have to charge
admission for poetry readings,

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I'll turn in my resignation.

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But we do need support
from our friends,

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and many of our friends
have been very generous.

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The gifts range
from $5 to $1,000.

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The money is put into an account
at the University of Arizona

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Foundation.

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And we've raised almost
$20,000 the last two years.

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We don't spend it.

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We will be spending,
when we need to,

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the earnings from the money.

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But we want the account
to grow to take care of us

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in bad times.

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Last Thursday, Miss
Abernathy and I

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were scurrying around, trying
to complete a grant application

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to the Arizona Arts Commission.

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And I was muttering and
cursing and saying ugly things

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and saying, this
is a stupid job,

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and I wish I didn't have it.

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And then Friday, I
went to the airport

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and picked up Tomas and Monica.

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And I said, what
a wonderful job.

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[LAUGHTER] I'd do this
even if they didn't pay me.

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I wish you all could
have been at my house

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this morning when
Tomas and a friend

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were playing
four-hand piano music.

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I wish you all had
the privilege that I

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have to spend a little time
with the wonderful visitors who

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come.

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This is Tomas
Transtromer's fourth visit

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to the Poetry Center.

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Most of his work has been
translated into English.

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He has a collected poems
from a British press called

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Bloodaxe and a Selected Poems,
1954 to 1986 from Echo Press.

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His last Swedish publication
was Det Vilda Torget, which

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means "The Wild Marketplace".

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Ironwood 13 was a special
issue dedicated totally

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to his work, which I'm
sure you would enjoy

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seeing at the Poetry Center.

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It's a wonderful issue.

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His honors include
Sweden's Bonnier prize,

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West Germany's Petrarch prize.

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In addition to writing,
he's also a psychologist.

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His wife, Monica, as
I've said, is with him.

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She works as a nurse.

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They live in Vasteras, Sweden.

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In honor of this tour that
he's doing this Spring,

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Oyez Press has put out
a beautiful broadside

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of his poem, "Vermeer",
which he will

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read for us this afternoon.

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And do you have that
picture with you?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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He's also got a postcard
reproduction of the Vermeer

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painting that the picture--

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that the poem concerns.

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So he'll show that to
you if you're good.

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And these will be for sale
for $2.00 after the reading.

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It is a great
privilege to introduce

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to you, Tomas Transtromer.

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[APPLAUSE]

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