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Before tonight's event, this
is a particularly busy time

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for poetry in Tucson and you
may be having trouble keeping

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track with everything
that's about to happen

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so here's an update.

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On Saturday, April 11th,
the "Among Other Things"

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series will be sponsoring a
reading by Jefferson Carter,

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Luellen Fletcher, Dave
Maine, and Hugh Steinberg.

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That's Saturday at 8:00
at the new Ortspace.

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On Sunday, at Antigone Books
on Fifth Street at 7:30 PM,

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poet Beverly Dahlen
will be reading.

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Next Wednesday, April 15th, six
of our stellar MFA candidates

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who are finishing this
semester will be reading here.

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That reading will include
Jennifer Rocco, Susan Collard,

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Robert Kaplan, Ed Walker,
John Cosco, and Andy Werblin.

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And, finally, on Thursday,
April 16th at 4:00, there

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will be a talk at
the Downtown Public

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Library in Tucson on the
new Chicano-Chicana poetry.

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That talk will be given by
Ana Perches and Joe Huerta

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and that's in conjunction
with the Poetry Center's

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30th Anniversary exhibit of
materials from the collection.

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Tonight, we're delighted to
welcome back Galway Kinnell.

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The last time he read in
Tucson was 1978 at one

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of the most interesting
and curious cultural events

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in our literary history.

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I found in looking
through the archives

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that this reading was
much more than a reading.

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In fact, eight
poets came to town,

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and first played a
tennis tournament

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at a dude ranch in Wickenburg--

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it's true-- And
then came to town

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and read at what
must have been one

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of the great poetic
marathons in Tucson.

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Among the readers
were Galway Kinnell,

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Marvin Bell, Bill Matthews,
Stephen Dunn, Dave Smith,

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and others.

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It's been too long since
Mr. Kinnell has been here

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and we're delighted
that he's back.

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He's the author of
10 books of poetry.

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Most recently, When One Has
Lived A Long Time Alone,

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published in 1990 by Knopf.

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He's won most of the
awards that American poets

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can win, including a MacArthur
Fellowship and two Guggenheims.

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He's the state poet of
Vermont, which state he

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lives in part of the time.

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He also lives in New York.

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During the past 20 years,
he has taught poetry

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at colleges and universities
in this country,

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as well as in France
and Australia.

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Earlier in his
professional life,

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he ran an adult education
program in Chicago

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and was a field worker for the
Congress of Racial Equality

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in Louisiana.

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Certainly, because of
the compelling music

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and the emotional authenticity
and complexity of his work,

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he is one of our most
compelling and loved poets.

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Please welcome back
Galway Kinnell.

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[APPLAUSE]

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