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I'd like to make a
few announcements here

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in the middle before we
hear Sandra Alcosser's work.

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We do have some very
beautiful broadsides

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that are on display
out in the hall that

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were made by Brighton Press.

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One of them, I think,
is of Sandra's work,

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and some other--
two of her work.

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Very beautiful,
very expensive, so

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feast your eyes, that's
probably all you'll want to do.

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Also there are a
number of readings

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that I'd like you to know
about coming up this week.

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Tomorrow night at the
Shane House, at 8 o'clock,

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Hugh Steinberg is reading
with Melanie Weiss,

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that's 218 South Fourth Avenue.

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Friday night down at the Tucson
Museum of Art, own Elizabeth

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Evans and Tenney Nathanson will
be reading in the Chax Press

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Series, Here and Now.

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And next Wednesday,
poet Judith Barrington

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will be reading here.

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I'd like to acknowledge
some of the people who

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helped sponsor this competition,
and brought Pete and Sandra

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to us, and also are bringing
Elizabeth Evans and John

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Sullivan up to Montana
in this exchange program.

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We got help from the
Arizona Commission

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on the Arts, the
Montana Commission

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on the Arts, the Western
States Arts Federation,

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and the Lila Wallace Reader's
Digest fund, all of whom

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were interested
in more exchanges

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state to state, so that
we'd get to learn more

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about the work of others in
our region that we didn't know.

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So we're thankful to
all of them for helping.

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Our second reader tonight
is Sandra Alcosser.

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She makes her home,
some of the time,

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in the Bitterroot
Mountains in Montana.

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She has been directing the
creative writing program

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at San Diego State University.

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And she teaches there poetry,
fiction, feminist poetics,

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and nature writing.

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Her book, A Fish
to Feed All Hunger

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was published by the University
of Virginia Press in 1986.

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It's out of print, but I think
we have a pamphlet out there

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if you'd like to order it.

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It's being reissued
by Ahsahta Press,

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and it should be
out quite shortly.

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She's won many awards, published
in many important places.

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Among her awards, two NEA
fellowships, a Bread Loaf

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Fellowship, and
a Pushcart Prize.

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I love about her work that she
brings a great deal of passion

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along with a
scientist's eyes, and I

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don't mean a cold,
analytical eye,

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I mean and eye for the
fine and beautiful detail

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of the natural world.

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Please welcome Sandra Alcosser.

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[APPLAUSE]

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