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Coming up on Saturday
night, among other things,

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is continuing its series
of lively literary events

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with a reading by the Poetry
Center's own Ila Abernathy

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and [? Laurie Schorr. ?] That's
at the new arts space on Stone

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Avenue, 8 o'clock
on Saturday night.

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And next Wednesday here in the
Modern Languages Auditorium,

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our own faculty member, Boyer
Rickel, will be reading,

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and we will be celebrating
the publication of his book

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from Wesleyan University
Press, "Arreboles."

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Right?

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Did I say it right?

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I asked him 10
times how to say it.

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Close.

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Close enough.

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After the reading
tonight, we will

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have for sale copies of Judith
Ortiz Cofer's book, "Silent

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Dancing," as well as
"Terms of Survival."

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And there will also be
copies of the "Sonora Review"

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available for sale
out in the corridor.

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I want to thank
Judith Cofer publicly

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for the great work she has
done in the high schools

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around Arizona this week.

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It's been a real
inspiration to those of us

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who have watched her in action
connect with young people

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and share with them her
dedication to writing.

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So thank you for that.

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And to introduce
our reader tonight,

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our own illustrious fiction
writer, Robert Houston.

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