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Good evening.

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Welcome.

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We have sound everywhere
all over the place.

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A few announcements,
as is our wont.

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Probably those of you who were
at the Tucson Poetry Festival

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last weekend are still
recovering from the sonic jolt

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of that wonderful event.

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I want to let you know that
there are t-shirts for sale

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out in the corridor.

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And bringing people
like Ginsberg and Baraka

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and Cecil Taylor was
not without a price.

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And the festival did come up
a bit short in the pocketbook.

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So if you didn't buy a
t-shirt over the weekend,

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sure to be a collector's item.

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It's a way you can
put a little money

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in the coffers of the festival.

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Or if you're able
to make a donation,

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they could use the help.

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So please try to do what
you can to help them out.

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A few upcoming events that
you may be interested in,

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next Tuesday at 7:30
in Kiva Auditorium,

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Sandra Cisneros will be reading.

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That's in celebration
of the publication

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of her new book of short
stories, a Woman Hollering

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Creek.

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And next Wednesday,
we will be having

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a visit from a Soviet
poet, Alexander Yudakin.

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He will be giving a
reading in Russian

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at the Poetry Center
and Alex Dunkel

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professor in the Russian
department will be reading

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English versions of the poems.

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That will be next Wednesday
at 3:30 at the Poetry Center.

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And if you by then are
not totally satisfied,

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you can come by on
Wednesday evening

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to hear fiction writer
Mark Costello read here.

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Tonight I'm truly delighted
to be able to introduce to you

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Alan Dugan.

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His work has won
about all the prizes

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that get doled out to
poets in this country.

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His first book, Poems in 1961,
received the Yale Younger Poets

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Award, the National Book
Award, Pulitzer Prize,

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and the Prix de Rome.

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Kind of a bumper crop of awards.

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He's also had a couple of
Guggenheims since then.

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Since 1969, he's lived
on Cape Cod in Truro,

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and been associated with
the Fine Arts Work Center,

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where he's had a lot to do
with an encouraging many years

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of young writers.

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Dugan's influences as a poet
range from the classical

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to the American joke.

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For decades, he's been the
antidote to any highfalutin

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ideas about the poem.

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As George Starbuck once
said about his work,

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Dugan's got imagination.

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He makes poems that
count for something.

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More important, just reading
his clear voice off the page

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makes me feel a lot
better about American.

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We've got language
we haven't used yet.

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Too bad more poets won't
trust it and give it a try.

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A few do, Dugan's one of them.

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Please welcome Alan Dugan.

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