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I have so many
announcements that I'm

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very sorry that I didn't just
print something up to pass out.

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Tomorrow night at Pima College,
David Wojahn will be reading.

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And that's at the
Downtown campus.

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I'm sorry I can't give
you the room number.

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It's 209.

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209.

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Thank you, Jim.

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Room 209, the Downtown
campus, that's just

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West of Speedway and Stone.

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And on Monday night,
Jim Hagan will

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be reading at Pima College.

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Is that Downtown too?

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I have no idea.

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OK.

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If you want to call us,
we'll have the information

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at the Poetry Center.

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Our next reading is a week
from tonight in the terrace

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lounge of the Student
Union and the readers

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will be four MFA candidates,
Gary Eddie, Judy Clarke,

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Joe Powell, and Ron Stoudamire.

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That's at 8:30 in
the terrace lounge.

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The Drama department
in cooperation

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with this English
department, and of course,

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the Poetry Center is
presenting Edward Albee a week

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from tomorrow.

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That's the 7th of February
in the ballroom of the Union.

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And that's at 7:30
in the evening.

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And so don't come
like you do here.

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I have quite a few
copies of the entry forms

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and rules for the contest.

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The entries for the
contest are due two weeks

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from Friday, no later
than February 15th.

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The judge of the contest
this year is Thomas Lux.

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The first prize is $100 from
the Academy of American Poets.

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Did I miss anything?

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I hope you can come
to the union to meet

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Patricia Hampel after the
reading at the terrace lounge.

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Patricia Hempel comes to us
from St. Paul, Minnesota,

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from the coal country.

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She's published
one book of poems

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with University of Pittsburgh
Press, called "Women

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Before an Aquarium."

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Her work has appeared
in all the usual poetry

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magazines in addition to some
of the more important ones

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like Paris Review
and The New Yorker.

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She writes short
stories, memoirs,

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essays, non-fiction
articles, as well as poetry.

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She's currently the recipient
of a Bush Foundation

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Grant, which is supporting
her as a full time writer

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this year.

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We're very happy to
introduce Patricia Hampel.

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[APPLAUSE]

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