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Hi.

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I'm glad you're all here.

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Before I introduce Florence,
I've got a few announcements.

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There are several poetry
readings coming up.

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First, next Tuesday, March
21, Richard Eberhart.

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U of A, Gallagher Theater,
Student Union 8:30.

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Next Wednesday, March 22, here,
Kofi Awoonor of Ghana at 8:30.

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Here, I mean right here.

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Also, I'm sure you'll be aware,
sometime during the evening

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that next door is
Ken Kesey's One

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Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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That's planning tonight,
tomorrow night, Saturday,

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and the same next week.

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I asked Florence for some
pertinent information

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and she gave me a
biography, sort of.

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Born in the Southwest, the
screen door of America,

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on October 21, 1947.

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Libra with a Leo rising
sign and Capricorn moon.

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Reads more fiction than poetry.

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Published in Sumac, Little
Bolero, Iowa Review, Choice,

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Trans-Pacific, Another Poetry
Anthology, Naked Poetry Number

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2, Ironwood, and others.

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She'll have a chapbook
coming out, fall '72.

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Also, her poems were read via
tape on the BBC Poetry Series 3

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talk show.

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I'd like to add some pertinent
information of my own.

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As recently as two months ago,
she loved Screaming Yellow

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Zonkers, and she'd like to
buy the defunct used car

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lot next door to her
apartment and sell elephants.

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Florence Anthony.

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[CLAPPING]

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