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I lost the poem.
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One week from tonight in this auditorium, Pamela Stewart
will read for us.
She's a new member of the university's creative writing
faculty.
Two weeks from tonight, we will have a student reading
to honor Persona Magazine.
And the contributors to this issue of Persona
are invited to read.
If you are a contributor and haven't talked to the editors,
would you sign up please with Merle in the English office.
I brought a couple more thousand of these, if anyone needs them.
This is the third time Bill Matthews has read for us.
Many of you heard him when he was here with the tennis group,
four years ago.
For the famous tennis tournament.
His books are Ruining the New Road,
Sleek for the Long Flight, Rising and Falling.
With Mary Feeney, he's published A World Rich in Anniversaries:
translations from the French of Jean Follain.
He's currently the Director of the Creative Writing Program
at University of Washington in Seattle.
Bill Matthews.
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