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Our guest this evening
is Mr. Robert Downs

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who'll be reading
selections from his novels.

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There'll be a reception
after the reading,

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you're all invited to stay
in and meet Mr. Downs.

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Poetry Center asked me
to announce a correction

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to the story printed
by the Wildcat

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on the poetry contest
sponsored by the Academy

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of American Poets.

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This statement should read,
"The entries should not

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exceed 100 lines, whether
one poem or series of poems,"

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rather than 100 words, as
the Wildcat story had it.

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The deadline on the
contest is April the sixth.

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There are four entry
forms and information

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available in the
Poetry Center office

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and in the English
department office.

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The next reading in the series
sponsored by the Poetry Center

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is Wednesday, April the 4th.

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When Michael Harper
will read him

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his poetry at the Modern
Language auditorium.

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Mr. Robert Downs,
who will be joining

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the faculty of the creative
writing program next fall,

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was educated at Harvard.

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And now at the
Harvard University

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writers workshop where
he received an MFA

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in creative writing.

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He has worked as a writer for
a Life magazine in New York.

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He has touted Phillips Exeter
Academy at Hunter College

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and at Colby College
in New Hampshire.

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His first novel, Going Gently,
was published last week.

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And his next novel will be
published sometime in 1974.

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It gives me a good
deal of pleasure

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to introduce Mr. Robert Downs.

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[APPLAUSE]

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