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Well I have several thousand
announcements to make.

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First, smoking is not
allowed in the auditorium.

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The Poetry Center
for several years

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has acted as the agent for
the Academy of American Poets

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to distribute prize money
at a spring contest.

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The Academy offers a $100
prize for student poetry,

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and we usually have money
from a few private sources

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and from the Student
Union Activities Board.

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The rules for this
year's contest

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will be available the
first of next week.

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We invite you to a reception
following tonight's reading

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in the Terrace room
at the Student Union.

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There are three
forthcoming poetry readings

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in the next six days.

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Tomorrow night at Pima College
in the cafeteria of building A,

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Florence Anthony
will read at 8:30.

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The following Wednesday in the
same cafeteria Kofi Awoonor,

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will read.

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He is appearing as one of
the poetry in the schools

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program, part of the State
Commission for the Arts.

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And our next poet will
read Tuesday night

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in the Gallagher theater,
that will be Richard Eberhart.

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Philip Levine, comes to us
from Fresno, California,

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where he's associated with the
English department at Fresno

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State.

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He's originally from Detroit.

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He's been represented in all
of the leading poetry magazines

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in several anthologies.

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His books are On The Edge,
Not This Pig, Five Detroits,

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Red Dust, Pillay's Wall, and
most recently from Athenaeum

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They Feed They Lion.

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It's my pleasure to
introduce Philip Levine.

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[APPLAUSE]

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