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Our next reading will be
one week from tonight.

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Three Master of
Fine Arts candidates

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will be reading in the terrace
lounge of the Student Union

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at 8 o'clock.

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And the readers are, Agha
Shahid Ali, Linda Grabner,

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and Pamela Portwood.

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That's one week from tonight.

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One week from tomorrow
will be the first

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in a series of readings to
be sponsored by the Writers

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at Work.

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And their reader will be
fiction writer Perry Glasser,

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he's a former
university student.

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And one of the MFA students
will be reading with him,

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but that's--

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the name is yet to be announced.

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Two weeks from tonight,
we'll have the last visitor

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in our fall series,
and that will

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be novelist and non-fiction
writer Frank Waters.

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That's October 24.

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And that reading replaces the
originally scheduled reading

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by Nadine Gordimer.

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We hope she will be
able to come next year.

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We invite you to stay
after the reading

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and have some lemonade
and cookies in the hall.

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Meet Charles Wright.

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Charles comes to us from
Charlottesville, Virginia.

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He's published seven books of
poetry, The Grave of The Right

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Hand, Hard Freight, Bloodlines,
China Trace, The Southern

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Cross, Country Music, which
is selected early poems, which

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was the co-winner of the
1983 American Book Award,

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and his most recent
book of poetry,

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The Other Side of the River.

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He's published two translations
of the work of the Italian poet

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Eugenio Montale, one of
which was a winner of an PEN

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Translation prize.

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His honors include fellowships
from the National Endowment

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for the Arts and the
Guggenheim Foundation.

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In '77, he was awarded an
Academy Institute award from

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the American Academy
of Institute--

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I can't say it.

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The American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters.

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Charles Wright.

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[APPLAUSE]

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