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Many students ask about the
student readings from time

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to time.

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In general, the
student readers are

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chosen by the poetry
professors who

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are Peter Wild, Steve Orlen,
who's on leave this year,

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Bill Roecker and
Richard Shelton.

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Normally, a student is
asked to read only once so

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that more students
can participate over

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the period of time.

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So we decided we would have
an open reading once each year

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to invite all who are interested
in reading to come and read

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for one another.

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And that will be the
first reading this year,

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two weeks from tomorrow.

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We ask you to meet
Ms. Levertov following

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the reading at the Student
Union in the terrace lounge.

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Diane di Prima will be
reading at Pima College

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a week from tomorrow,
October 17th, 8:30

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in the boardroom
of Building C. Just

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call us any time at
the Poetry Center

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if you would like a reminder
of the time and place.

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Review in the New York
Times said, "Denise Levertov

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is the most subtly skillful
poet of her generation.

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The most profound, the most
modest, the most moving."

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Ms. Levertov is teaching at
Tufts in Boston this year.

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She makes her home in
Somerville, Massachusetts

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and in Maine.

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Her honors include prizes from
Poetry Magazine, a Guggenheim

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Fellowship, an award from
the National Institute

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of Arts and Letters.

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She's published 12
collections of poems

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ranging from The Double Image
in 1946 to Footprints in 1972.

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This winter she has coming out
a collection of prose pieces

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called The Poet in the World.

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Many of us were very pleased
to hear her read for us

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about six years ago.

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And I'm very pleased
to introduce her

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to you this evening,
Ms. Denise Levertov.

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