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Reading for the semester
next Tuesday night.

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And the readers are Leslie
Silko and Tony Nelson.

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That reading will
begin at 8:00 o'clock

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in the cellar of
the student union.

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And our next reading will
be one week from tonight

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in the Terrace Lounge
of the student union.

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Four of the Master of Fine Arts
candidates will be reading.

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Neville Parker, Kenneth
Pritchard, Clifford Saunders,

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and Lynne Saul.

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We had the first issue
of the newsletter,

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and I brought a
few extra copies.

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If you're in a class, you
should be receiving it in class.

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If not, we'll have them out
on the refreshment table.

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And tonight, we'll
have our refreshments

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just outside in the hall as
soon as the reading is ended.

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And it's time for you to give
me news for the next newsletter.

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Nicest thing about my job
is getting to meet people

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like Lucille Clifton.

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And of course,
the worst thing is

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that when you meet them,
then they don't come again

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for eight or nine years.

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And just as you feel you've
really found a soulmate,

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they go back off
to Baltimore again.

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Lucille Clifton has written
19 books for children.

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Her most recent book of
poetry is Two-Headed Woman,

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which is the winner of the 1980
Juniper Prize, an annual poetry

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award sponsored by the
University of Massachusetts

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Press.

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Her other collections
of poetry are

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Good Times, Good News About the
Earth, and An Ordinary Woman.

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She's also written a family
memoir called Generations.

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Her work appears in all
the usual magazines.

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Her honors include two
National Endowment grants.

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She's currently a Woodrow Wilson
Fellow, and as I said earlier,

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she lives in Baltimore.

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It's such a great pleasure
to have her back with us.

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Lucille Clifton.

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[APPLAUSE]

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