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I hope you can stay
for the reception.

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Following reading, we'll
be right out in the hall.

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And on the reception table--

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I thought about not
announcing this at all--

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we'll have some of
the contest rules.

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Tomorrow's the last
day for students

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to enter the poetry contest.

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So here's the entry
form and the rules.

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I thought about
not announcing it,

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because everybody waits till
the last day to turn them in.

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Also, we have flyers
from the Tucson Poetry

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Festival, which will take place
the last weekend of this month.

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And there will be a stack
of those on the table.

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It has the full schedule
of the readings.

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Our next reading will
be April the 8th.

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And the reader is Tillie Olsen.

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That reading is co-sponsored
with women's studies.

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It's part of the conference
on midlife crisis.

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And that will begin at 7:30.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I'm not going to look at you.

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[LAUGHTER]

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That meeting will begin at 7:30
in the Harville Auditorium.

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That's April 8.

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We had announced in
our last newsletter

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that we were adding
an additional fiction

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reading of John Williams.

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And that reading
has been canceled.

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So the Poetry Center events
for the rest of the year

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will be the Olsen reading
on the 8th, Persona reading

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on the 13th, and
the contest awards

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reading on the 20th of April.

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It's my pleasure to welcome
Stephen Dobyns to our campus.

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He's published four
books of poetry--

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Concurring Beast, which was
the winner of the 1971 Lamont

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Poetry Prize from the Academy
of American Poets, Griffon, Heat

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Death, and The Balthus Poems--

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and four novels, most
recently, Saratoga Swimmer.

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I'd like you to welcome,
please, Stephen Dobyns.

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[APPLAUSE]

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