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Our next reading will be
two weeks from tonight

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in this auditorium and
that will be a reading

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by a new member of the creative
writing faculty, short story

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writer Elizabeth Evans.

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That's October 14th.

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And again, I brought a stack
of these announcements, which

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we'll have out in
the refreshment table

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if you didn't receive one.

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We've moved the refreshment
table to the breezeway

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because it's a beautiful night.

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So I hope you'll stay and
have some punch and cookies

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after the reading.

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An organization
called Walk in Peace

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is looking for written material
on the theme of compassion.

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This is a Tucson
ecumenical council

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witness for peace organization.

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I brought a stack of fliers
that gives information

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about the organization
and their plans.

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The fliers will also be out
on the refreshment table.

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We finally finished
putting together

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the first issue
of the newsletter

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and we'll take it to
the printers tomorrow.

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You're welcome to start giving
me new material if you like.

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I may say rude
things to you, but.

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We're very fortunate to
have Jack Gilbert with us.

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Tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock at the Poetry Center

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he'll be meeting with
all interested students

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and individuals just
to chat in general.

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Poetry Center is at the corner
of Speedway and Highland.

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[MICROPHONE FEEDBACK]

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What's happening, Bill?

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[MICROPHONE FEEDBACK]

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[LAUGH]

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I'm leaving.

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Jack Gilbert's books of
poetry are Kochan, Monolithos,

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which is Poems 1962
and 1982, and Views

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of Jeopardy, which was the
1962 Yale Younger award winner.

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His work appears in all the
usual better periodicals

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such as American Poetry Review
and Ironwood and New Yorker

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Poetry.

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His honors include a Guggenheim
Fellowship, Borestone Poetry

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Award, he's twice been
nominated for the Pulitzer.

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He served as a lecturer
for the State Department

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in Southeast Asia, India, the
Middle East, and Scandinavia,

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and he's also spoken for
the Voice of America.

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He's taught at several
universities, which

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I won't name, lived in
abroad for many years,

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especially in Italy and Japan
and on the Greek isle of Paros.

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He presently resides
in San Francisco.

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Would you please
welcome Jack Gilbert?

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[APPLAUSE]

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