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Our next reading will be
one week from tonight,

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visiting poet Carolyn
Kizer in this auditorium.

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The Sonora Review is sponsoring
a reading Monday afternoon.

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That's the 17th,
Monday afternoon

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in Room 251 of
the Student Union.

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The poet is Nancy Schoenberger.

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Copies of Sonora Review will
be on sale at the reception

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this evening.

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And copies of Persona,
the undergraduate literary

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magazine, will go
on sale next Monday

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at the Student Union bookstore.

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And we'll have some of
the Poetry Center too.

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We're preparing the first
issue of the newsletter.

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So this Friday is the last day
to turn in any news you have.

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I'm sure most of you know
we only publish good news.

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I have a big stack of
these flyers, which

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are advertising an October
2nd reading by Scott Momaday

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for the Friends of the Library.

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And they'll be out on
the refreshment table.

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Last week, I
announced that I had

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a bunch of these on
the refreshment table

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and then held them clutched in
my hand for the whole evening.

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So there definitely is a stack
of these out on the table

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tonight.

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I hope you'll stay after the
reading, talk to Robert Hass,

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and have a little--

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I hope there's enough cookies.

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Some of us didn't
get any last week.

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We ran out.

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Robert Hass comes to us
from Berkeley where he's

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teaching at St. Mary's College.

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He's published two
collections of poetry--

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Field Guide, which was the
winner of the 1972 Yale Series

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of Younger Poets, and Praise.

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With Robert Pinsky
and Renata Gorczynski,

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he translated Czeslaw Milosz,
The Separate Notebooks.

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His most recent
publication is a collection

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of prose on poetry called
20th Century Pleasures.

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In addition to the
Yale prize, he's

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been the recipient of
Woodrow Wilson Foundation

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Grant, Danforth Fellowship, a
Guggenheim Fellowship, and most

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recently that great prize,
the MacArthur Grant.

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Robert read for us in 1979.

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Many of you were here then.

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So you know that we have a great
treat in store for us tonight.

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Robert Hass.

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