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The Lamplight Reading
Series is the first Sunday

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of every month.

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So this Sunday the
4th of February,

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there are two readers, Amy
Pence and Valerie Martinez.

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And their readings are at
the Albuquerque at 121 East

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Congress just across
from the Chicago store,

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downtown in the arts district.

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And that's at 7 o'clock.

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And our next reading is
one week from tonight.

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And we are pleased to bring
Li-Young Lee to the campus.

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Some of you may have seen
Li-Young on the Bill Moyers

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series recently.

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He was a former student here and
we're very proud of his work.

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And he's a wonderful
young writer.

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And two weeks from tonight,
another special reading,

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two members of the
creative writing faculty,

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novelist Mary Elsie Robertson
and nonfiction writer Vivian

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Gornick.

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And both of those
readings will be

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in this auditorium on
Wednesday nights at 8 o'clock.

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If you are one of the few
people in the county who

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did not receive one of our
notices, they're out there.

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Some out on the table.

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Gary Soto is associate
professor of Chicano studies

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and English at the University
of California in Berkeley.

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And this coming, this spring
is serving as the Martin Luther

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King Cesar Chavez Rosa Park,
visiting professor of English

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at Wayne State University.

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His books of poetry are The
Elements of San Joaquin,

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The Tale of Sunlight,
Where Sparrows Work Hard,

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and Black Hair, and most
recently A Fire in My Hands.

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His prose recollections
Living Up the Street

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received a Before Columbus
Foundation Award in 1985.

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And he's published two books of
occasional essays, Small Faces

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and Lesser Evils.

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His first short story
collection is out now, isn't it?

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It's not due out,
it's more or less out.

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His honor to include fellowships
from the Guggenheim Foundation

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and the National Endowment for
the Arts and California Arts

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Council.

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It's a real pleasure to
introduce to you Gary Soto.

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[APPLAUSE]

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