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Please excuse our delay.

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The next reading will be April
14 in the Modern Languages

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Auditorium.

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And Ruth Stephan will
be our guest poet.

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You are invited
tonight to a reception

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honoring Mr. Ciardi in the
Terrace Room of the Student

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Union.

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Mr. Ciardi comes to
us tonight as a poet,

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but he's also known as a
lecturer, critic, editor,

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and translator.

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He has been a lecturer
at Bread Loaf since 1947.

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He's now the director of the
Bread Loaf Writers Conference.

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I'm sure you're all familiar
with his translations.

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He has just completed the
third and final volume

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of Dante's Divine Comedy.

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Since 1956, Mr. Ciardi
has been the poetry editor

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of The Saturday Review.

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His work is represented in
more than a dozen anthologies.

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You'll be happy to know
I'm not going to read them.

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He's written seven volumes
of Children's Verse.

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Most recently, Someone
Could Win a Polar Bear.

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His 13th volume of
verse, The Lives of X

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will be released in May by
Rutgers University Press.

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It's my pleasure to present to
you tonight, Mr John Ciardi.

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[APPLAUSE]

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