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I'm sure you know
from long experience

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it is our custom to start with
several thousand announcements.

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I hope you'll be able to come
to the Student Union immediately

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following the reading.

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The Terrace lounge
upstairs in the west end,

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have some punch and cookies,
and meet Mr. Poverman.

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And at the Union,
I'll have a couple

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of thousand of the bookmarks
in case you didn't get one.

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And I have a couple thousand
of our newsletter, which

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is for the creative writing
students, and friends,

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and family, and all relatives,
hometown newspapers,

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and things like that.

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We will have books available for
sale tonight at the Union, too.

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You might even be able to
convince Mr. Poverman to give

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you his autograph.

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Our next reading will
be next Thursday.

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Our first visiting
poet is Kathleen Fraser

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from San Francisco.

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She will be reading in
this auditorium at 8:30.

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I hope you have
marked the next eight

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Thursdays in your
calendar because they're

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running every week, and
they're all on Thursdays,

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except the extra one on
Friday in early November.

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Grilled Flowers press
to put out magazines

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and chap books has been
awarded up CCLM grant.

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And in order to raise the
necessary matching funds,

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they're having a yard
sale this Saturday.

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They would appreciate
your coming

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you may have seen their
posters all over town.

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We'll appreciate your
donations if you have some.

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If you need any
information, you can

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call us at the Poetry
Center tomorrow

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or call Frank Graziano.

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Buzz Poverman comes to us to
join our faculty this year

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teaching fiction classes, he's
very widely traveled and widely

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published, his first two
major books came out,

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most recently, his novel
Susan from Viking press,

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a collection of stories
called The black Velvet Girl,

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which was the winner of
the Iowa short fiction

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contest for last year.

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You have a treat in store.

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I know you'd rather
hear Buzz than hear me.

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CE Poverman.

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