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I'm asked to remind
you that smoking is not

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allowed in the auditorium.

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I would like to
apologize if any of you

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were inconvenienced by
the cancellation of Denise

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Levertov's reading last month.

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We hope to be able to reschedule
an appearance by Miss Levertov.

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The next program of the
University Poetry Center

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will be a student reading three
weeks from tonight, December 6,

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in the terrace room
of the Student Union.

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Four graduate
students will read,

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Rhoda Goldberg, Raleigh Kant,
Greg Papes, and Paula Bankoff.

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I hope you can come to
the reception for Mr. Root

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at the Terrace Room tonight
following the reading.

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William Pit Root comes to us
under the auspices of the State

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Council for the Arts.

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Born in Austin,
Minnesota in 1941,

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he's one of the youngest
poets to appear on our series.

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He was educated
at the University

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of Washington, the
University of North Carolina.

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His honors include, an
Academy of American Poets

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Prize, the Rockefeller
Foundation Fellowship.

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He has taught at Stanford
University, and Michigan State

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University.

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Mr. Root has one volume of poems
published by Athenaeum in 1969,

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called The Storm
and Other Poems.

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His work has appeared
very widely in magazines,

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I'll mention only a few.

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The Atlantic Monthly, Beloit
Poetry Journal, Hudson Review,

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and The Nation.

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I'm sure you'll enjoy
hearing William Pitt Root.

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[APPLAUSE]

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[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING] --

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