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Thanks, Aleida.

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Tonight we have a
special guest who

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will bring on the virtuoso
poet Marilyn Hacker.

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Marilyn's long-time
friend and a luminary

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of the literary community
here in Tucson, Linda Smukler

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is the author of two collections
of poetry, Normal Sex and Home

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in Three Days, Don't Wash, a
book and multimedia project

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with an accompanying CD-ROM.

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Her work has been
widely anthologized

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and she's the recipient of
numerous awards in poetry

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and fiction, including the 1997
Firecracker Alternative Book

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Award in poetry.

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She has received
fellowships in poetry

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from the New York Foundation
for the Arts and the Astraea

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Foundation.

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She has worked
[INAUDIBLE] The World

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in Us and the best prose poem.

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It's a privilege for
us to have Linda here

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to present Marilyn Hacker.

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And we're very pleased to
have her speak for the Poetry

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Center, too.

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Please welcome Linda Smukler.

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