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This is our last reading for
the term, but Writers at Work

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has one more reading,
one week from tonight

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in the Terrace Lounge
in the Student Union.

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A fiction reading by
Karen Brennan, Kit McIlroy

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and Pete Turchi.

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That's Wednesday, the 23rd.

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And the Mosaic series has two
more readings for this term.

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The 4th of June, the readers
will be Charles Alexander,

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Emil Baird, Julian
[? Gajewski. ?] And in June,

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Gary Meyers, Frank [? Moyel ?],,
and Evelyn Ellstrom.

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You may have received
an announcement

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of the Writing for
Survival and Healing

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reading, sponsored next Tuesday
night by the Rape Task Force.

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There's a fine article about
this program in the Tucson

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Weekly today.

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And some of these
announcements that

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will give you all the
details of time and place,

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have been left on the
refreshment table in the Hall.

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If you need a reading
fix after all of those,

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you come to the Poetry Center
and listen to the tapes.

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We make tape recordings
of the readings.

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It's wonderful to sit back
there in that nice little room,

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and here the beautiful
voices again.

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I think we've had
a wonderful year,

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and this is such a great
way for us to close it,

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with this poem
reading that we're

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going to have tonight
with Sharon Olds.

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Sharon Olds' second
book of poetry,

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The Dead and The Living, was
the Lamont poetry selection

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in the Academy of
American Poets from 1985.

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Her first book, Satan Says.

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Her work appears in the Pushcart
Poetry anthologies, the Norton

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Introduction to
Poetry, such places

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in the New Yorker, the Atlantic
Monthly, The American Poetry

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Review and many other magazines.

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Her honors include fellowships
from the National Endowment

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for the Arts and the
Guggenheim Foundation.

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She's currently living in
New York City, Sharon Olds.

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[APPLAUSE]

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