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[AUDIENCE CHATTER]

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I have a few thousand
announcements.

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If you're one of the
few people who did not

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receive a copy of the
semester schedule in the mail,

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there's a stack of them beside
me on the edge of the stage

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and another stack outside
on the refreshment table.

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And I hope you will stay and
have some punch and cookies.

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We didn't sample the brownies,
but I'm sure they're good.

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I wonder what would happen if
we didn't-- if we had a poetry

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reading that didn't
have brownies.

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If you're not on
our mailing list

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and would like to receive the
announcements of the readings

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and the quarterly
newsletter, I also

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brought a little
stack of 3 by 5 cards.

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If you give me
your address, we'll

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be happy to add you
to our mailing list.

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We hope to be sending
out a newsletter

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no later than the
second week in October,

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hopefully earlier than that.

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In addition to
tonight's reading,

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Joy Harjo will be meeting with
teachers in Tucson Unified

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School District, tomorrow
afternoon at 3:30, at Rincon

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High School and with any
and all interested writers,

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or listeners, or readers
at the Wilmot Library,

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at 7 o'clock tomorrow night.

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I don't expect you to
remember that so I also

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brought a stack of those
announcements, which is out

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on the refreshment table.

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Our next reader will
be a week from tonight

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in this auditorium,
Lucille Clifton.

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I mentioned our newsletter.

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We print only good news.

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We print a news of publications,
forthcoming publications,

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honors and awards, notices of
readings in town, publication

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opportunities,
whatever information we

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can collect which
we think and hope

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might be of interest to you.

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So if you have some news,
please give it to me tonight

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or by the end of this week.

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And if you know of
some event that's

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being sponsored by
another agency in town,

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we would like to put
it in the newsletter

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so that all the students
will know about it.

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We mail to about 900
people in addition

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to the campus distribution.

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One publication opportunity
that I was told about today

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was the 1988 calendar,
which will be put out

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by Mazagine, which is the
literary publication of Pima

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Community College.

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And I'll be putting
this poster up

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outside the deadline
for submissions

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to that as October 22.

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I'm sure most of you
know about Sonora

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Review, the beautiful
quarterly magazine--

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biannual magazine put out by
the university MFA students.

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And copies of the
most recent issues

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are on sale out in
the lobby tonight.

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This reading is made possible
by a grant from the National

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Endowment for the Arts and
the Arizona Commission.

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And we're very, very happy to
have their support this year.

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Joy Harjo has published
three collections of poetry--

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The Last Song, What
Moon Drove Me to This?,

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and She Had Some Horses.

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Her work has appeared
in many anthologies,

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including Native American
Literature, 20th Century Native

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American Writers,
Writers of the Southwest.

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The Watershed Foundation has
released a tape recording

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of her reading.

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Her honors include a fellowship
from the National Endowment

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for the Arts.

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She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
as a member of the Creek tribe.

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She's currently teaching at
the University of Colorado

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in Boulder.

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She's on the board of directors
for Native American Public

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Broadcasting Consortium and
is the poetry editor for High

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Plains Literary Review.

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I had the pleasure
of hearing her

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speak on a panel sponsored
by the public library

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a couple of years ago and
enjoyed so much hearing her.

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And students who heard her
this summer, when she was here

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for the seminar, had been so
excited in coming by every day,

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saying, when's
she going to read?

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When's she going to get here?

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So we know we have a
great treat tonight.

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Joy Harjo.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you.

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It's good to see everyone.

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And I want to thank the Poetry
Center for bringing me here.

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I've been treated like royalty.

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And it's appreciated.