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[CHATTER]

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I lost the poem.

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[CHATTER]

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One week from tonight in this
auditorium, Pamela Stewart

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will read for us.

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She's a new member of the
university's creative writing

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faculty.

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Two weeks from tonight, we
will have a student reading

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to honor Persona Magazine.

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And the contributors to
this issue of Persona

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are invited to read.

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If you are a contributor and
haven't talked to the editors,

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would you sign up please with
Merle in the English office.

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I brought a couple more thousand
of these, if anyone needs them.

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This is the third time Bill
Matthews has read for us.

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Many of you heard him when he
was here with the tennis group,

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four years ago.

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For the famous
tennis tournament.

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His books are
Ruining the New Road,

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Sleek for the Long Flight,
Rising and Falling.

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With Mary Feeney, he's published
A World Rich in Anniversaries:

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translations from the
French of Jean Follain.

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He's currently the Director of
the Creative Writing Program

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at University of
Washington in Seattle.

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Bill Matthews.

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[APPLAUSE]

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