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Our next reading will be one
week from tonight with visiting

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poet James Merrill.

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And that will be our last
visitor for this year.

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Mr. Merrill will
be meeting students

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informally at the Poetry Center
at 3:30 on Tuesday afternoon.

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And everyone is
invited who would like

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to come and ask him questions.

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If you don't know where
the Poetry Center is,

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it's the corner of Speedway and
Highland, 1086 North Highland.

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On the schedule
that we distributed

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at the beginning
of the semester,

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we listed student readings
for April 8th and April 15th.

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The April 8th reading
has been canceled.

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So we have two readings to go--

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Mr. Merrill next week and the
final student reading on April

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15th.

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Writers at Work has a
reading next week also.

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On Thursday night,
Robert Houston

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of the Creative Writing
faculty and Susan Roberts,

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an MFA student at
the University,

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will be reading
from their fiction.

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And that will be at 8 o'clock
in the junior ballroom.

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I hope you can stay after
the reading tonight.

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We have some punch and cookies.

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And tell Byrd how
wonderful she is.

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Byrd Baylor's novel,
Yes Is Better Than No,

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was published by
Scribner's in 1977.

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She's published 25 books,
which she describes as,

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more or less, for children.

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Many of you know that they're
more or less for adults too.

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Some of the titles
are Moon Song,

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I'm in Charge of Celebrations,
If You Are a Hunter of Fossils,

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The Desert Is Theirs, and
The Way to Start a Day.

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Some of her honors and awards
are 1985 Outstanding Arizona

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Author, Arizona Library
Association Award,

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the Catlin Peace Pipe Award
from the American Indian Lore

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Association, three Texas
Institute of Letters Awards,

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four Border Regional
Library Association

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Awards, six American Library
Association Notable Book

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Awards, and four Outstanding
Science Trade Book Awards,

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and the New York Academy of
Sciences Children's Science

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Award.

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She lives in Tucson
and in Arivaca.

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I'd like to read one quote
from Elliott Arnold in speaking

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of Yes Is Better
Than No because he

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says what I feel much
better than I could say it.

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"This is a dream of a book.

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It transports you to a
world you have never seen

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and to people you
have never known.

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And when you finish
and put it down,

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you will sigh and wish you could
have visited a little longer.

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Don't let this one get by."

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Byrd Baylor.

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[APPLAUSE]

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