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Our next reading will be
two weeks from tonight

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in this auditorium.

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It'll be a fiction
reading by Stanley Elkin.

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Two fine poets will be
reading in town next Thursday

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night, but not at the same
time in the same place.

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Antonio Cisneros of
Peru will be reading

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for the romance
languages department

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in this building, room 311.

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That's Thursday the 1st.

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And Gary Soto will be reading
at Pima College the same day.

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I hope you'll come to the union
to meet Ira Sadoff tonight.

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And copies of his books
will be on sale tonight.

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If you haven't been
before, the reception

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is in the terrace lounge,
which is on the third floor

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on the west end of the union.

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Ira Sadoff comes to
us from Colby, Maine--

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or, Colby College rather,
in Waterville, Maine.

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His books of poetry are
Settling Down and Palm

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Reading in Winter.

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His work has been
widely anthologized

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and appears in all
the usual magazines.

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He also writes short fiction.

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His short fiction has been
included in Prized Stories

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of 1976, the O. Henry Awards.

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He was cofounder and coeditor
of the Seneca Review,

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and from 1974 to 1978
was the poetry editor

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of the Antioch Review.

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I'm very happy to
welcome Ira Sadoff.

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[APPLAUSE]

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