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I hope you can stay
after the reading

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tonight and have
some refreshments,

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and meet Mr. Merrill.

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We'll be just right
out in the hall.

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James Merrill is our last
visitor for this term,

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but we do have one more reading.

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We had originally scheduled
two student readings.

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The one for next Wednesday
has been canceled,

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but there will be
a final student

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reading of the year
on April 15, IRS day.

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The readers will be the
undergraduate students

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whose work has been
accepted for publication

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in Persona Magazine.

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But though our series
is winding down,

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there's a great deal
going on still in town.

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Tomorrow night, Writers at
Work has fiction reading

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with Robert Houston, the
creative writing faculty,

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and Suzanne Roberts who is a
candidate for the MFA program.

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On Saturday night, the premiere
reading of a new group--

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a new group that's called
Among Other Things.

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Their reading will
start at 7 o'clock.

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That's Saturday, the 4th, at
the Newspeak Arts Gallery.

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That's a new gallery at
Broadway and 6th Avenue.

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Poet Jim Simmerman is coming
down from Northern Arizona

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University to read for them
with one of our MFA students,

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Mike Magoolaghan, and
that's a free reading.

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I think they're even having
some champagne afterwards.

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Sunday, there's two events.

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An autograph party for
Jefferson Carter's new book,

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None of This Will Kill
Me: Poems of Fatherhood.

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That's Sunday afternoon
from 2:00 to 5:00

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at Pam Treiber's store, that's
Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle's toy store.

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If you haven't been there, it
is one of these special places

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to visit.

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So 3000 East Broadway.

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And Sunday evening,
the continuing series,

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the Lamplighter readings
at Bentley's coffeehouse.

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The readers this Sunday
are Elizabeth Robertson,

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Sandy Florence, and Rick Campa.

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That would begin at 7:00.

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Bentley's is 1730 East Speedway.

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I know you won't
remember all of that.

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There's some flyers from
Writers at Work around campus,

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and there'll be some flyers
from Among Other Things out

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on the table.

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Also out on the
table tonight, we

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would like, again, to
invite you to become

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a friend of the Poetry Center.

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About 170 people have
become friends of the Center

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by making donations,
and we haven't

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made any kind of suggestion.

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Any amount will make you a
friend of the Poetry Center.

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However, if you would like
to become a friend tonight,

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if you make a donation
of $25 or more,

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we'd like to thank you by
giving you a set of posters.

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I'm sure most of you have
seen our posters that we had

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formulated for the Centennial.

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They're on display out
in the hall tonight too.

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The friends are on
our mailing list

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to receive the newsletters
and the announcements of all

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the readings.

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It's not easy today to still
do 20 public events each year

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without charging admission.

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So we do need some
help from our friends.

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We appreciate if you would
be considering joining us.

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If not tonight, we'll be happy
to press a flyer upon you,

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and you can send us a check.

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It's our great
pleasure to welcome

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James Merrill to the campus.

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His most recent books of
poetry are Late Settings

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and The Changing
Light at Sandover,

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which is the winner of the
1983 National Book Critics

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Award and the Los
Angeles Times Book Award.

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His earlier collections
of poetry include--

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this is an incomplete list--

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"First Poems," "The Country
of a Thousand Years of Peace,"

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"Water Street," "Nights and
Days," "The Fire Screen,"

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"Braving the Elements,"
"Divine Comedies,"

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"Mirabell Books of Number,"
"Scripts for the Pageant,"

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and "From the First
Nine Poems 1946-1976."

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He's also written two
novels, The (Diblos) Notebook

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and The Seraglio.

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And two plays.

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No, that's three
plays, isn't it?

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I only have the titles of
the two, The Immortal Husband

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and The Bait.

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And--

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The Image Maker.

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The Image Maker.

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It's a new play.

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Other honors and awards
include membership

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in the National Institute of
Arts and Letters, the Bollingen

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Prize, Pulitzer Prize,
two National Book Awards.

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He has homes in Stonington,
Connecticut and Key

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West, Florida.

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He just showed me a
picture of himself

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taken in Arizona when he was
a child at the Arizona Inn.

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It's a wonderful
photograph to see.

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We visited the inn
the other night

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to see if he remembered
any changes in the inn.

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It's been a long time
since he was here,

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and we're very happy that
he's consented to come

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for this occasion.

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James Merrill.

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[APPLAUSE]

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