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Inside back cover of the
newsletter we just put a whole

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calendar of events, but for
the benefit of those of you who

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cannot read I'll tell you
what the coming events are.

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Tomorrow afternoon at
3:30, Mr. Bernstein

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will speak for the
Magritte series, that's

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in the Magritte Cafe
on Broadway at 3:30

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in the afternoon,
that's a free session.

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That's sponsored by Chax Press.

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There's two readings
coming up this weekend:

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Nanao Sakaki, from Japan,
will give a reading

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and show a videotape at 4
o'clock on Sunday afternoon

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at the Central Arts Collective,
250 East Congress Street.

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That reading is not
in the newsletter,

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so if you forget the
time you can call us

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at the Poetry Center and
we'll tell you the time

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and place, Sunday at 4 o'clock.

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And Sunday evening at 7:00
is the regular first Sunday

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reading of Lamplight,
and the readers this week

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are LD Clark and Dorothy Lykes.

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Dr. Clark is a novelist,
he's just recently retired

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at the University and Mrs. Lykes
is a poet who lives in Phoenix.

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There's a new series sponsored
by the Spanish and Portuguese

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department with funding from
Southwest Center: Chicano

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Writers, and the
second of their readers

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will be next Tuesday night, and
that's Pat Mora, from El Paso,

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reading in the
Modern Languages 410.

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We had originally
scheduled a fiction reading

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for this auditorium
next Wednesday

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night by Tama
Janowitz and that's

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been canceled
because of illness.

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And then the next in
the Among Other Things

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series will be on the 13th,
that's a week from Saturday.

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And the readers are Robert
Boswell and Antonya Nelson,

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you may be familiar to you
Robert and Antonya-- are

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both MFA alums in fiction
and done beautiful work.

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The Among Other Things
readings are also

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at the Central Arts Collective
and they begin at 8 o'clock.

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Our next reading is
two weeks from tonight

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in this auditorium:
visiting poet Alice Fulton.

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I hope you'll stay
after the reading,

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and have some
lemonade and brownies.

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Meet Mr Bernstein.

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We have books on sale
tonight and if you didn't

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bring your money tonight
we'll have them again

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tomorrow afternoon.

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We have three books
and Chax Press

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has done a special
presentation of four poems

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in a very beautiful folder.

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And these are all
signed well, I'm

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sure Mr Bernstein didn't sign
your other book if you bought,

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but this is such a
lovely thing I want

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to be sure that you all see it.

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Charles Alexander has
done this in Chax Press.

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And if you don't like that
selection Student Union has

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Mr Bernstein's book
Controlling Interests for sale,

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then we take cheques, but
we don't take credit cards.

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I hope you also saw
in the newsletter

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that there's a new
series on television

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on Sunday afternoons
called Voices and Visions,

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the first program last
week was on Robert Frost,

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and each of the 13 segments
will deal with one poet.

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I'm pirating video
cassette recordings

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if you miss it and want to see.

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I'm not selling them I'm taping
and you can borrow the tape.

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We're happy to have
Charles Bernstein with us.

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He's published 14
books of poetry

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since 1975, among
the more recent

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The Sophist and Resistances--

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no, Resistance, not Resistances.

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His critical essays
have been collected

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in a book called Content's
Dream: Essays, 1975 - 1984.

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With Bruce Andrews, he's
edited the influential magazine

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of contemporary poetics
called L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E.

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He's also edited two
collections of poetry,

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The Language Sampler, which
is in Paris Review number 86,

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and 43 Poets.

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His work has appeared in
hundreds of periodicals

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in the United States,
and in Europe,

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and New Zealand, and Australia.

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His honors include fellowships
from the University

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of Auckland Foundation,
Guggenheim Foundation,

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National Endowment For The Arts,
and Simon Fraser University.

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He comes to us
from New York City.

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Charles Bernstein.

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[APPLAUSE]

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