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[APPLAUSE]

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On behalf of the Ruth
Stephan Poetry Center,

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I want to welcome you to our
first reading of the year.

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Can you hear?

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No.

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I want to welcome you to the
first reading of the year

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and announce the readings
which are to come.

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On December 6,
Denise Levertov will

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read in the Physics,
Mathematics,

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Meteorology Auditorium.

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On January 10, David Wagoner
will read in the Modern

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Languages Auditorium.

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On February 7, Thomas Kinsella
will read in the Modern

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Languages Auditorium.

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On March 20, Galway Kinnell will
read in the Modern Languages

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Auditorium.

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All of these readings
will be at 8:30.

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They're all open to the public.

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Mr. Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
who will read for us tonight

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is a poet, playwright, novelist,
translator, and publisher.

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His books of poetry
include Pictures

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of the Gone World
published in 1955,

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a Coney Island of the
Mind published in 1958,

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Starting from San Francisco
published in 1961,

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After the Cries of the
Birds just published,

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and a very recent broadside
Moscow in the Wilderness

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Segovia in the Snow.

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Mr. Ferlinghetti's novel,
Her was published in 1960.

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He has written two
collections of plays,

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routines published in
1963, and unfair arguments

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with existence.

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Mr Ferlinghetti is the
author of film scripts,

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including Have You
Sold Your Dozen Roses?

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And he is the translator of
Jacques Prévert's Paroles.

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His second book of poetry--

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A Coney Island of the Mind-- has
sold well over 300,000 copies

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and appears to be the
most read volume of poetry

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to be issued in our times.

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He has received a great many
other distinctions, awards

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which I will not go into.

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One local honor I
might mention, we

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have found at the Poetry Center
that his books are most often

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and most consistently
stolen, which

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indicates I think something
of his popularity.

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[LAUGHTER]

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It gives me a great
deal of pleasure

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and it is a distinct honor to
present to you, Mr Lawrence

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Ferlinghetti.

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[APPLAUSE]

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