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We have a wonderful
series planned

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for the coming semester.

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Readings will include visits
by Grace Paley, CK Williams,

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Charles Simic, Sharon Olds,
Tomas Tranströmer from Sweden,

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Lynn Luria Sukenick who will be
here as a visiting professor,

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and three student readings.

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If you are not on
the mailing list

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and would like to
receive announcements,

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please see me after the reading
and give me your address.

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Writers at Work has one
more reading schedule

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for this semester, two
weeks from tonight.

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Rod Kessler, former
University student,

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now teaching in
Salem, Massachusetts,

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will be reading from his
fiction with MFA candidate David

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Wallace.

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And that reading is
at the terrace lounge

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in the Student Union.

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Poetry Center is
administering a contest

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for the Academy of American
Poets, Student Union Activities

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Board, and in memory
of Margaret Sterling.

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The refreshment table tonight,
we have contest rules and entry

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blanks.

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This contest is
for students only.

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Poetry Center is 25
years old this month.

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And to celebrate, we have
published a small book

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which is a history of the
Center and description

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of the activities and
anthology of poems.

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I just happen to have some
of these available for sale

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for $3.

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Also, the Poetry Center
has a new brochure,

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a descriptive brochure
and an invitation

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to become a friend
of the Center.

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And I'll have some
of these brochures

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out on the table tonight.

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I hope you can stay afterwards
and have some punch and cookies

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and meet Diane Ackerman.

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This is a very special lady
who's come to us today.

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She does everything.

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She's currently
dividing her time

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between two cities,
Ithaca, New York, where

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she has her regular
home, and St. Louis where

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she's the director of
the creative writing

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program at the
University of Washington.

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You know that she's a poet.

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I'll read you the titles of her
books of poetry, some of which

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will be on sale tonight.

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The Planets: a Cosmic
Pastoral, Wife of Light,

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and Lady Faustus, all
published by Morrow.

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She's written a prose
memoir called Twilight

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of the Tenderfoot about
a year spent working

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in New Mexico as a ranch hand.

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Not on a dude ranch,
but a working ranch.

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She's a licensed pilot.

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Her newest book is
called On Extended Wings,

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and is about the
experience of flying.

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In addition to these
books, she also

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writes articles and essays.

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Her work appears frequently
in places like The New York

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Times, Parade Magazine.

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It's a very great
pleasure to introduce you

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to Diane Ackerman.

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[APPLAUSE]

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