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Next reading will be
two weeks from tonight.

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It's a combination
of prose and poetry

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by graduate students
in the MFA program.

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The readers will be Roy
Burley, Linda Lashinsky,

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reading from their fiction,
Stephanie Halgren and Victor

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Tolani, reading
from their poetry.

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Our final program
for this semester

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will be four weeks from
tonight, December 1,

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and the reader will
be William Stafford.

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I hope you can come
over to the Union

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and meet Primus St. John
following the reading tonight

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and have some punch and cookies.

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We'll be in the Terrace Lounge.

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Primus St. John was born and
educated in New York City.

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He's currently on the
English department faculty

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at Portland State University.

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He served as poet-in-residence
for the Tacoma Public Schools.

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He is the recipient
of a Discovery Award

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and a creative writing
fellowship from the National

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Endowment for the Arts.

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His first collection
was published this year

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by the Copper Canyon Press.

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It is called Skins on the Earth.

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His work has appeared in all
of the leading magazines.

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He goes from here
to Salt Lake City

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for a week's intensive work
with poetry in the schools.

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It's been a pleasure
to observe him

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with classes and individual
students this week.

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And I know that you're going
to enjoy very much hearing

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him read tonight.

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Mr. Primus St. John.

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[APPLAUSE]

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[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

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