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This is not the first time that
I've been at the Poetry Center,

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but it's the first time
I've been at this Poetry

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Center, which is quite
different from the old one,

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though I have memories
going back to the Sheltons

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and LaVerne Clark and others,
maybe even Tenney Nathanson.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So I'm going to do something
rather retrospective,

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reading poems that--

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when you've written a lot and
a number of years have passed,

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it's hard to select out.

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But I'm reading poems from this
large book, Eye of Witness,

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subtitled Jerome Rothenberg
Reader, starting in the 1960s

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and going decade by
decade into the present

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and maybe using
these instruments.

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