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There are still a few
chairs right in the middle

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if you'd like to move in.

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If you're in the
doorway, will you

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help to keep the doors open,
so we can breathe a little--

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just a little.

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Overjoyed to see so many
people for our first reading

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this year.

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If you are not familiar
with our schedule

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for the fall of readings
and of the library,

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I brought a large stack
of bookmarks with me

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tonight, which I will have at
the reception for Ms. Wakoski.

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Please help yourself.

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We'd like to invite
all of you to come

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to the reception in the terrace
room of the Student Union.

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That's on the second floor
the Northwest section

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of the building.

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The second in our
series of readings

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will be in this auditorium three
weeks from tonight October 27.

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We have a joint reading by
two English poets, D.M Thomas

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and Peter Redgrove.

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Beth Miller Brigham has
been in Arizona touring

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with the poetry in
the schools program

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and reading is being planned
for her at Pima Junior College

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next Thursday.

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I'm sorry that I don't have
all the details tonight,

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but we will have the details the
first of the week if you will

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check at the Poetry Center.

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I must ask that
you do not smoke.

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Ms. Diane Wakoski comes to us
tonight from New York City.

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She is one of the most widely
published poets in America.

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I would like to read you a
list of all of her books,

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but if I did she wouldn't
have time to read to you.

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Some of her titles
are very interesting.

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To me, most interesting is the
title Inside The Blood Factory.

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Also, some poems by the
Buddha's Birthday appeals to me.

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He will have a book
come out soon published

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by Simon and Schuster called
The Motorcycle Betrayal poems.

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Ms. Wakoski is a poet who makes
her living from her poetry.

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It is not a sideline.

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It is a full time occupation.

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She reads throughout
the United States.

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She crisscrosses the
University campuses.

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Her work appears in all of
the major little magazines

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of poetry.

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And it's my pleasure
to welcome her

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as our first reader for 1971.

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[APPLAUSE]

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