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I'm asked to remind
you there is to be

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no smoking in this auditorium.

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A week from tomorrow,
Thursday May

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4th we have our last
student reading of the year,

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and this will be
the prize winning

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reading for the spring contest.

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Tonight's visiting
point, CK Williams

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is the judge for
this year's contest.

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84 individuals submitted
more than 260 poems,

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so we will be sending
letters to the winners

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the end of the week.

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As you know we do not announce
the winners in advance,

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we send letters requesting
those who are winning prizes

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to come prepared to read.

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The last visiting poet
in this year's schedule

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would be William Stafford in
this auditorium Tuesday, May

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9th.

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We invite you to come to a
reception honoring Mr. Williams

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tonight and the Student
Union Terrace Lounge.

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Charlie Williams, is the author
of two books of poetry, Lies

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and I Am the Bitter Name.

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Mark Strand said of Lies,
"a fine moving book,

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one of the best by a young poet
that I've read in some time."

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You know the definition of
a young poet, don't you?

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That's anyone younger than I.
So all of the poets associated

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with the University of Arizona
can come back in 20 years

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and I will introduce them as the
young poets at the university.

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In addition to his
two volumes of poetry,

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CK Williams is
represented in a book

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for Open Learning, Other
Tongues, and Major Young

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Voices.

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His work has appeared in the
major poetry periodicals,

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his publications include Work
in the New Yorker, Poetry,

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Ironwood Magazine, the American
Poetry Review, Iowa Review,

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Little Bolero, the New American
Review, and many others.

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I'm happy to introduce one of
our leading young poets, CK

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Williams.

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[APPLAUSE]

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The poetry contest
entries were very fond,

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I'll start with that
surprisingly so.

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And I read every last
poem, 256 or something.

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