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[SIDE CONVERSATION]

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This is our last reading
for the semester.

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Those of you who need a poetry
fix may go to ASU next Monday

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night--

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[LAUGHTER]

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--where WS Merwin
will be reading.

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There will be two fine
readings at Pima College.

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John Anderson on November 22,
Michael Hogan on December 8.

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We hope you can
come to the Union

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following the reading tonight
to meet Mr. and Mrs. Levine.

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Have some cookies.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And books will be available for
sale after the reading tonight.

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We'd like to put out our second
newsletter sometime the end

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of this month.

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So if you have any news of your
own work or your friends' work,

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I would appreciate it
if you'd give us a note

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so we can include it
in our newsletter.

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Philip Levine was
born in Detroit,

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Michigan, educated
at Wayne State,

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currently teaches at
California State in Fresno.

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His honors include a National
Endowment for the Arts grant,

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Franc O'Hara prize
from Poetry Magazine,

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National Institute of
Arts and Letters grant,

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and most recently a $5,000 award
from the Lenore Marshall Prize,

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which is given annually for
the outstanding book of poems

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published in the United States.

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It's given by Saturday Review
and the New Hope Foundation.

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His books-- beginning
with the first published--

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are On the Edge, Not this Pig,
Five Detroits, Pili's Wall,

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Red Dust, They Feed They
Lion, 1933, and most recently,

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The Names of the Lost.

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Very happy to introduce
Mr. Philip Levine.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you.