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We have a very exciting
series planned this semester.

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And if you did not receive one
of our advertising brochures,

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there's a big stack out
on the refreshment table.

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And there's a stack
here beside the lectern.

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Be sure and pick one up.

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Our next reading will be
two weeks from tonight.

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And Gary Soto will
be reading for us.

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The week following Mr. Soto,
we'll bring back to this campus

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Li-Young Lee, who was a
student here at one time.

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And we're very happy to be
having him as a visitor.

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And then we have a very
exciting joint reading

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by Vivian Gornick and
Mary Elsie Robertson,

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who are both on the
creative writing faculty.

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Maxine Kumin will be
visiting for us in March,

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and Linda Hogan will
be the final visitor

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of the year in April.

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And three student
readings are scheduled.

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And a number of readings
for Writers at Work.

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Writers at Work will begin their
season next Wednesday night

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with a reading by Ron Steffens
and Barbara Kingsolver.

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The Writers at Work
sponsor fiction readings.

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Everything is in
this auditorium,

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and everything is at 8 o'clock.

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Copies of Sonora Review will be
on sale tonight in the lobby.

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Sonora Review is a
beautiful national magazine

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that's produced by
students in the MFA program

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here at the university.

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WS Merwin first
visited us in 1969.

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And it's been a great
pleasure to call him

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our friend since then.

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He's come to Tucson
several times

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and read not only
for the Poetry Center

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but for Pima College
and the Poetry Festival.

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And came, sometimes,
and just visited and had

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a good time with all of us.

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It's such a pleasure
to have him back.

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I called him and I said,
this is my last semester.

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And he said, OK, OK, I'll come.

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I didn't have to
whine or cry at all.

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It was just wonderful.

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He's published 14 books
of poetry, most recently,

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The Rain in the Trees
and Selected Poems.

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Also, books of nonfiction,
books of memoirs.

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He's won all the major awards.

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As my husband introduced
him several years ago,

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he is a man who needs
no introduction.

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I present to you WS Merwin.

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[APPLAUSE]

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