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I'm Lois Shelton, the
director of the Poetry Center.

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I'd like to invite
you to come visit us.

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We just moved to our new
house at 1216 North Cherry.

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That's a block and a
half north of Speedway.

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And we've still not
unpacked, but we are open,

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and we hope you'll come.

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When we get all
settled in, it's going

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to be a very comfortable space.

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We mourn the loss of our corner
at Highland and Speedway.

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But now we have a space that
has beautiful light, which

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pleases me very much.

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If you did not receive a copy
of our schedule of events,

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there's a large stack out
on the refreshment table.

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And I hope you will all stay
and have refreshments and tell

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Steve and Jonathan how
wonderful they are.

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Our next reading will
be one week from tonight

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in this auditorium.

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The reader will be Nancy Mairs.

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She'll read from her
poetry, essays, and memoirs.

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In addition to the readings
advertised on our flyer,

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there will be readings
this term sponsored

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by Among Other Things.

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They had their first
reading last Saturday,

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and their next reading
won't be until October 23rd.

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They're having the readings
at the Central Arts

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Collective on Saturday nights.

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Writers at Work will
be scheduling readers,

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visiting fiction and
faculty fiction writers,

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and student writers.

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Steve Orlen's books of poetry
are Sleeping on Doors, Separate

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Creatures, Permission
to Speak, which

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was the winner of the Associated
Writing Programs Series

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Selection Award, and
A Place at the Table.

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He's in many anthologies
and publishes regularly

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in small magazines.

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His honors include fellowships
from the State Arts Commission,

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the National Endowment
for the Arts.

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He's been a fellow at Bread Loaf
and at the Karolyi Foundation

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in France.

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He's been teaching here at
the university since 1967.

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He's been here
longer than I have.

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And he's the director of our
creative writing program--

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Steve Orlen.

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[APPLAUSE]

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