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You may have noticed that
I am not Lois Shelton.

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Well, actually,
I'm Lois in drag.

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You'd never recognize me.

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There are a couple
of announcements

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I'd like to make before
I introduce our reader.

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First is that the usual punch
and cookies will be available

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in the terraced lounge
afterward if you'd

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like to speak with Mr. Justice,
and you're all invited.

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Second is that there is no
smoking in the auditorium.

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Third is that William Pitt Root
will be reading at Pima College

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next Tuesday at 8:30.

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I'm told that you'll have
to call for particulars,

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although I see Bob
Langone in the audience,

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and he should be able to tell
you what those particulars are.

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Student Center Downtown Campus.

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Student Center Downtown
Campus at 8:30.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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At 8:30.

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OK.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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Room 209.

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It's the Downtown Campus.

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You have to come dressed
in a Texaco uniform

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with an air gauge
in your pocket.

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Poetry class is there too.

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Oh, portrait class is there too.

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With a Texaco air
gauge in your pocket.

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Donald Justice's books of poetry
include The Selected Poems,

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which was the 1980 Pulitzer
Prize winner, Departures,

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Night Light, and The
Summer Anniversaries.

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He edited the collected
poems of Weldon Keyes

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and co-edited Contemporary
French Poetry.

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He is also a translator,
French and Spanish,

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a scholar, short story
writer represented

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in two issues of Prize
Stories, the O. Henry awards,

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a reviewer, and teacher.

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He is currently on leave
from the University

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of Iowa, a visiting professor
at the University of Virginia,

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and soon to be in
Florida at Gainesville.

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Other honors and awards include
three National Endowment

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for the Arts fellowships,
a Rockefeller fellowship,

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a Lamont Poetry Prize,
a citation and award

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from the National Institute
of Arts and Letters,

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and a Guggenheim fellowship.

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It's with great and
sincere pleasure

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I give you Donald Justice.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thanks, Bob.

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It's nice to be here again.

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I doubt if any of
you here 11 years ago

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when I was last here What
I remember about it myself

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is it wasn't the glass of water.

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There was a carafe of water,
and about halfway through I

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stepped in it, having put it
not up here but down there,

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and I won't be able
to do it tonight

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if anybody came back for a
repeat performance of that.

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Are the acoustics good enough
so that my voice at this level

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can be heard toward the back?

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OK, thank you.

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All right.

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