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One week from tonight
in this auditorium,

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visiting poet Diane Ackerman
will be reading for us,

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and Writers at Work have
scheduled one more reading

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for this term.

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On December 4th, Rod Kessler,
he's a former University

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student who teaches now
in Salem, Massachusetts,

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will be reading with MFA
student David Wallace,

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and I forget where that is.

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I think that's in the
terrace lounge in the union.

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I hope you can stay
after tonight's reading

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and have some refreshments
to meet Dr. Powell.

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We have a new brochure
for the Poetry Center,

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a general information
brochure and an invitation

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to become a friend
of the Poetry Center,

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and I brought just a few
of them with me tonight,

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the bulk is still
at the printers,

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but pick them out on
the refreshment table

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if you'd like to have one.

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If you are not on
our mailing list

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and would like to be please
see me after the reading.

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Dr. Powell, the
list of publications

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is so long that if
I read all of them

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you wouldn't get to hear him.

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But we have a partial list
on this little brochure

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that we mailed out and also
brought a stack of these,

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so if you would like the
list of his major books

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those are on the
refreshment table too.

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Lawrence Clark Powell is a
librarian, teacher, lecturer,

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and chairman of the
Friends of the University

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of Arizona Library,
as well as being

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a writer of essays,
history, books on books,

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numerous articles for
periodicals, and a novelist.

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As a novelist that
we've asked him

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if he will appear
for us tonight,

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it's a great pleasure
to introduce him to you.

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He has one new book out
from University Press, which

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I would like to mention,
it's called Books Are Basic:

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The Essential
Lawrence Clark Powell,

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and it's edited by
John David Marshall.

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It's a collection
of quotations combed

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from many of his other books
essays, articles, and reviews.

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I've already stolen
one of the quotations

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to put in the next newsletter.

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It's a great
pleasure to introduce

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to you Lawrence Clark Powell.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Good morning.

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