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Our next reading will
be one week from tonight

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in this auditorium,
that's October 28.

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And the reader will
be Lisel Mueller.

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It's a great
pleasure to introduce

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Michael Burkard to
you tonight, and I

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hope that you can come to
the Poetry Center following

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the reading to meet him.

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If it's nice, we'll be
outside on the South lawn.

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And if it starts to
rain at all, we'll

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be inside the Poetry Center.

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That's at the corner of
Speedway and Highland,

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two blocks directly
North of here.

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Michael Burkard comes to
us from Massachusetts.

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His first two collections of
poetry are, In a White Light

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from L'Epervier Press, and
None, River from Ironwood Press.

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In just a few weeks, his
new book, Ruby for Grief

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will be available from the
University of Pittsburgh Press.

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He's recently been a writing
fellow at the Provincetown,

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Massachusetts Writing Center.

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He's taught at the
University of Iowa,

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at St Lawrence University,
Kirkland College.

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His work appeared in all
the usual little magazines,

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which I won't list.

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We're very happy
to have him here.

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Michael Burkard.

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[APPLAUSE]

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