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[SIDE CONVERSATIONS]

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I can see by the size
of the audience tonight

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and by how early
many of you came

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that you know we're in for a
great, great treat tonight.

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Our next reading is
one week from tonight,

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and that will be a prose
reading by Ron Hansen.

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Ron Hansen is with the creative
writing faculty this year.

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And that's in this
auditorium on the 24th.

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I brought some more of
the green schedules.

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They'll be on the
refreshment table.

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I hope you can stay and
have some punch and cookies

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and tell Charles how wonderful
he is after the reading.

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It is not true that there
is a reading every week.

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We have one week off in October.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I'm very happy to announce that
due to the kindness of Bruce

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Malcolm and Kim Mollica, we
can resume our Sunday afternoon

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hours at the Poetry Center.

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We'll be open from 1:00 to
4:00 each Sunday afternoon.

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And last week, I
forgot to announce

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that we had already resumed
our Thursday evening hours.

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We're open on Thursday
evening from 7:00 to 10:00.

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So I hope those
of you who are not

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able to come during
the daytime will take

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advantage of that time to read.

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If you haven't been
to the Poetry Center,

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we're at the corner of
Speedway and Highland--

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1086 North Highland.

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Across the street from
the computer building.

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I had said that last
Friday was the last day

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to give items for
the newsletter,

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and then I didn't
get things ready.

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So I still would be happy
to take news this evening

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if you have good news
for the newsletter.

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As you know, we only
publish good news.

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Not babies and weddings
and things like that.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Literary news.

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Charles Simic has come to
us from New Hampshire, where

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he teaches at the university,
and he lives in Stratford.

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Strafford, not Stratford.

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His 11th book of poetry--

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Selected Poems-- was published
by Braziller Press last year.

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Some of his other collections
are Weather Forecast

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for Utopia and Vicinity,
Austerities, Classic Ballroom

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Dances--

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that's poems, not
a how-to book--

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Dismantling the Silence,
and my favorite title--

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Return to a Place Lit by Milk.

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I love it.

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Is that wrong?

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Lit by a Glass of Milk.

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Lit by a Glass of Milk.

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I can't read--

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I can speak, but I can't read.

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Return to a Place Lit
by a Glass of Milk.

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I like it better the other way.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I'm sorry.

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This is one of those days when
I was either laughing or crying.

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I can't help it.

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With Mark Strand, he
co-edited an anthology

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called Another Republic from
contemporary South American

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and European writers.

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He's published many translations
of East European poetry,

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including two collections of
the Yugoslav poet, Vasko Popa.

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It's a great pleasure to
introduce to you Charles Simic.

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[APPLAUSE]

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I was standing
here 16 years ago.

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It's a little strange.

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It seems like a long time ago.

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I want to read a
mixture of things--

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older things, not too old.

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Some things from
the Selected Poems.

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And then some poems
from a book which

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is coming out in November
and then some even more

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recent things.

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And I'm going to mix them up.

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