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--we'll present Mr. Robert
Downs, reading selections

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from his novels in the Terrace
Lounge at the Student Union.

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The last poet on
this year's schedule

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will read in this auditorium two
weeks from tonight, April 4th.

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We have coming, Michael Harper.

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Contest entry blanks
and rules will

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be available at the reception
for Miss McPherson tonight.

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If you'll look on the
refreshment table.

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The deadline for
contest entries will be

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April 6th, Friday, April 6th.

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I'm very happy to
announce that we have

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$275 in prize money this year--

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$100 from the Academy
of American Poets,

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$75 in memory of
Jean Greig which

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was donated by Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Eberhardt,

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and an additional $100
from combined student union

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activities board, the Poetry
Center, and a private donor.

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We're very happy to have
a very charming young lady

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this evening with Sandra
McPherson, comes to us

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from Portland, Oregon.

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She studied at San Jose State.

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She studied at the
University of Washington.

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She lives now with her daughter
and her husband Poet Henry

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Carlile.

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Her work has appeared in many
magazines such as Nation,

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Poetry, Poetry Northwest,
Colorado Quarterly Perspective,

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and other journals.

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Her first book of poems,
Elegies for the Hot Season,

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won for her--

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the Association of American
University presses award

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from the National
Council in the arts.

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She has completed a
second book, Radiation,

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with the help of an Ingram
Merrill Foundation grant.

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Radiation will be published
soon by a Viking subsidiary.

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Will you welcome please
Miss Sandra McPherson.

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[APPLAUSE]

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