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Poetry Center will be
sponsoring two more poetry

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readings for this year.

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One week from tonight, visiting
poet Henry Carlile in this room

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at 8 o'clock, and two
weeks from tonight,

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we will honor the
students whose work

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is going to appear in Persona,
the undergraduate literary

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magazine.

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That will be April 18 in the
terrace lounge of the Student

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Union.

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And one more reading
has been scheduled

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for Pima College for the year.

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Jim Simmerman will be reading on
the West Campus Student Center

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mezzanine on Thursday, April 19.

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I hope you can stay
after the reading

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and have some refreshments
and meet Ms. Levertov.

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This is Denise Levertov's
fourth visit to Tucson,

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but she hasn't been
here for over 10 years.

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Far, far too long.

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We mustn't wait this long
before she comes again.

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Denise Levertov has published
15 volumes of poetry, including

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The Double Image,
The Jacob's Ladder,

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Relearning the Alphabet, O
Taste and See, The Sorrow Dance,

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To Stay Alive, Footprints,
Life in the Forest, Collected

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Earlier Poems,
Candles in Babylon,

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and most recently, A
Wanderer's Daysong.

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Just two books of prose, The
Poet in the World and Light

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Up the Cave, and one
book of translations

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from the French poet Guillevic.

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She's been teaching this
last quarter at Stanford,

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and is soon to return
to her home in Boston,

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and it's very fine
to have her here.

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Denise Levertov.

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[APPLAUSE]

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