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Bet the punch and cookies
are out in the hall tonight.

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And I hope you can all
stay for refreshments.

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Can you hear me OK in the back?

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OK.

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Our next reading will be
two weeks from tonight

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in this auditorium.

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That's February 9.

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And the reader will be
visiting poet Gerald Stern.

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Before our next reading, there
will be a fiction reading

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at the Mosaic Cafe.

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Mosaic Cafe is at Silver
Bell and Speedway.

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That's Sunday,
February 6 at 7:30 PM.

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And the two fiction readers
will be LaVerne Harrell Clark

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and Byrd Baylor.

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If you did not get
a flyer announcing

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the readings for this semester,
I brought a stack with me.

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And I'll have them
outside after the reading

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on the refreshment table.

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We'd like to put together a
newsletter early this semester.

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So if you have any news
of publications, honors,

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or awards, will you
please give it to me

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by Friday of this week?

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You can put a note in
the Poetry Center mailbox

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or send a note to me.

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I'd rather you wouldn't
call because we might

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get the information incorrect.

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But it's OK, we will take it.

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Linda Pastan comes to us
from Potomac, Maryland.

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She's published five
collections of poetry

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and two chapbooks
Her most recent

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is her new and selected
poems called PM/AM.

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Her honors include fellowship
from the National Endowment

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for the Arts, fellowship from
the Maryland Arts Council,

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The Dylan Thomas Poetry Award.

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She's widely published
in the lit magazines.

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She has for several years been
on the faculty of the Bread

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Loaf Writers' Conference and
also is currently teaching

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at the American University.

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I'm very happy to
welcome Linda Pastan.

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[AUDIENCE CLAPPING]

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