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I have a couple of
announcements before I

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introduce tonight's poet.

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First, the poet Ruth
Stone, her reading

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has been rescheduled from
May 14th to Monday, May 11th.

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And she'll read in the Kiva
room of the education building

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at 7:30.

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Also the poet JD
Reed, whose new book

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Expressways has just
recently been released,

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I will read Monday, April 27th
in the Kiva room, also at 7:30.

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I've been asked to announce that
the poet Richard Shelton who

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read here earlier this year,
will also read in Phoenix--

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sorry, it should
be Tempe I guess,

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Wednesday, April 29 in
the arts and architecture

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auditorium at Arizona State
University, at 8 o'clock.

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Tonight, Steven Orlen will
read from his poems for you.

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And I wish I wasn't so
nervous about introducing him,

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but this is the first time
I've ever had this job

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and I want to do the best I can.

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Steven Orlen was
born in Massachusetts,

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and attended the
University of Massachusetts

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and also the University of Iowa,
the Iowa Writers' Workshop,

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where he took an MFA
degree in creative writing.

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He's a widely published
poet for his age.

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And I should say too that his
publications for the most part,

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are in on the best of
American poetry magazines.

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He's a good teacher, or so
I'm told by his students.

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His students like him almost
to the point of adoration.

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I've heard-- I've never
heard a student say anything

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bad in any way
about Steve Orlen,

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and I regard that highly.

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And he's been a confidante
and a critic for me.

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And I wish I could
say something that

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would be the best thing I could
say without sounding really

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corny, but Steven Orlen is
one of the finest young poets

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I know and I'm sure
you'll enjoy his reading.

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Steve Orlen.

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[APPLAUSE]

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