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Dan Anderson has
been commissioned

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by Arizona Highways to write
a feature on the Center.

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And we are very pleased
to have this opportunity

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to present our program
to a wider audience.

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So Jack Dawking is going to
take a series of photographs

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after I make the introductions.

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And then he's going to take
all of his toys and go away.

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And then we'll have
a poetry reading.

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But he won't be taking
photographs during the reading.

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As you know, Carl
Dennis is the last

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of our visitors for this term.

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But we have two more readings.

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We have two student readings.

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We are mailing the
newsletter tomorrow.

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If you're not on
the newsletter list,

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I brought a stack
of the newsletters,

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and I'll have them out
on the refreshment table.

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The two student meetings
are announced in there.

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The first will be October
29th for the graduate students

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reading--

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Steve Chmelewsky, Bruce
Gungle, Michael Magoolaghan,

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and Amy Pence.

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And the last reading
of the term will

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be November 5, which will
be an open student reading.

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All University students are
invited to come and read.

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We do not have a
reading next week,

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but there is a fine opportunity
to hear a great writer.

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Alfred Kazin will be on campus
for the Friends of the Library.

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His visit is sponsored
by the public library

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and the English department.

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And he'll be speaking in the
social sciences auditorium

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Wednesday night at 7:30.

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The announcement of that and
some material about Mr. Kazin

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is also in the newsletter.

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But what is not
in the newsletter

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is that he will be
entertaining questions

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from all interested people
Wednesday afternoon, Modern

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Languages 310, at 2 o'clock.

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Carl Dennis has come to
us from Buffalo, New York.

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He's published four
collections of poetry--

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The Near World, Signs and
Wonders, Climbing Down,

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and A House of My Own.

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His honors include a fellowship
from the Guggenheim Foundation.

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He's just recently joined
the faculty at Warren Wilson.

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He's been teaching at Buffalo
for quite a few years.

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I won't tell you how many,
because that would give away

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his age.

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He's been very patient
as we followed him around

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with cameras and scribbling
down every word he said.

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We're very grateful
for his coming.

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And I know you have a treat
and going to hear him tonight.

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It's Carl Dennis.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you, Lois.

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I know it was merely
accidental that they're

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doing this while I'm here,
just the luck of the draw.

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But it's starting to activate
all my dreams of glory.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And it seems totally natural
that people are following

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around taking photographs, and
that the country has finally

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decided they want a
permanent record of my life

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and how I conduct workshops.

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And it's going to be very hard
for me to get back to Buffalo,

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and no one's at the
airport to interview me

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how things went in Tucson.

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So I don't know how
I'm going to make it,

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but I'm having a good time here.

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I like to read newer poetry,
just because I learn things

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by reading.

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So I am going to be reading
some poems from my last book,

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The Near World.

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And also, I'm going to be
reading from a manuscript I

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just completed.

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