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I hope you'll stay
after the reading

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tonight and have
some refreshments

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and meet Jon and Buzz if
you don't already know them.

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We also have some
books for sale tonight

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and Jon has brought
some tapes that he's

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going to tell you about.

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And Sonora Review is selling
their most recent issue

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plus back issues.

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And some of the
back issues feature

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the work of Jon Anderson
and Buzz Poverman.

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There are two
readings next week.

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Wednesday night, our
visiting poet David Kirby

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who's coming from Tallahassee,
Florida, and Thursday night

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he's reading sponsored by
the Faculty of Humanities.

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And the reader will be poet
and scholar Houston Baker who's

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the director of the Center for
the Study of Black Literature

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and Culture at the
University of Pennsylvania.

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Dr. Baker will be reading on
Thursday night and lecturing

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on Friday afternoon.

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And there are a few
copies of this flyer

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advertising his reading out
on the refreshment table.

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And also more
copies of our flyer

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advertises the rest
of the semester.

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And also I never send
anyone away empty handed.

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Some flyers on the
Southwest Poetry Festival

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which we are co-sponsoring with
the Academy of American Poets

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and Arizona State University.

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And that's November 1st and 2nd,
November 1st here in Tucson,

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November 2nd at ASU.

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C.E. Poverman whom we call Buzz
has published three novels,

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Susan, Solomon's Daughter,
and most recently

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from Scribner's My
Father in Dreams.

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He has a book of stories and
novellas forthcoming this year

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called [? 'Nam. ?] His
collection of short fiction,

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The Black Velvet Girl, was
the winner of the Iowa School

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of Letters Award.

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His honors include a fellowship
at the Karolyi Foundation

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in France, and fellowships
from the National Endowment

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for the Arts.

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And it's a great pleasure
to introduce Buzz Poverman.

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[APPLAUSE]

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