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Thank you for
swimming out tonight.

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Surprising night in Tucson.

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And for the April--

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April Fools Day.

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I'd like to make a
few announcements

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before the reading tonight.

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First of all, here
next Wednesday one

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of the great moving
voices of American poetry

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will be returning to
Tucson, Galway Kinnell.

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That's here at 8 o'clock
next Wednesday night.

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Also some other events that
are coming up in town that you

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may want to know about.

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The Lamplight Series
on Sunday, April 5th.

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We'll be holding a
reading of poetry

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by Native American
students and the new issue

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of Art's Reach edited by
Scott Momaday will be out.

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That will be at Bentley's
on Congress Street

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downtown Sunday.

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I didn't write the time down,
I think it's seven or eight.

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Does anyone know?

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Anyway, if you need to
know, call the Poetry Center

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and we'll know there.

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And on April 11th,
among other things

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is having a People's
Choice reading,

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which will feature
David Maine, Jefferson

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Carter, and likely others.

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And God, this is a very busy
month for poetry in Tucson.

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On Sunday, April 12th at
7:30 at Antigone Books,

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Beverly Dahlen will be reading.

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She will also appear for a
book signing with Tucson poet

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and publisher Charles Alexander
at Bookman's on Grant Road.

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The book signing will be
Saturday the 11th at 11:00 AM,

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and the reading will be
Sunday the 12th at 7:30.

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And if you haven't
fully satisfied

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your appetite for
poetry already,

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there is the exhibits--

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30th anniversary celebration
exhibit of books, photographs,

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broadsides, and other
interesting materials

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from the Poetry Center
collection which opens tomorrow

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at 4 o'clock downtown at
the Tucson Public Library.

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Tonight we're extremely
pleased that we have

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Mei-mei Berssenbrugge with us.

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We wanted to have
her here last year,

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and we succeeded this year.

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She was born in Peking,
grew up in the United States

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back east in
Massachusetts, has been

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living in Galisteo and
Santa Fe, New Mexico

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for the past several years.

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She's the author of Fish Souls;
Summits Move with the Tide;

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Random Possessions;
The Heat Bird,

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which won the 1984 Before
Columbus American Book Award;

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Empathy; Mizu; a
play, One, Two Cups;

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and quite a number
of other works

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which I am sorry to
have left off the list.

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Ideal is forthcoming
from Kelsey Street Press,

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and she's also working
on a book with the artist

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Kiki Smith, a collaborative
book about the immune system,

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which may, I understand, go
on to more complex system

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beyond the immune system.

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I should tell you that after the
reading, a number of her books

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will be for sale courtesy of
ASUA bookstore in the corridor.

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We're extremely happy
to have Mei-mei with us.

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She's one of the more
adventurous voices among us

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today.

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Please welcome
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge.

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