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We have one more reading
one week from tonight.

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Roger Weingarten from
Arizona State University

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will be reading for
us in this auditorium.

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Don't forget to come have
punch and cookies at the Union

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after the reading
and meet Mr. Wright.

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We'd like to put out one
more issue of the newsletter

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before school's out.

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But until you give
me some more news,

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we can't put out a newsletter.

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I get embarrassed walking up
and down the hall up there,

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asking people for news.

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So please give me
a note and let us

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include any good news you have.

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Charles Wright comes to us from
the University of California

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at Irvine, most recently, though
he's a southerner by birth.

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What's the name-- what's
the town you made up--

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The town I made up?

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Where you were born.

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I didn't make it up.

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[LAUGHTER]

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In Pickwick, Tennesse.

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He says he was born in
Pickwick, Tennessee.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Mr. Wright's work has appeared
in all of the usual poetry

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magazines, such as Poetry,
New Yorker, Antaeus,

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Lillabulero, Partisan Review,
North American Review.

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There's a long series of books,
mainly from Wesleyan University

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Press.

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Most recently, China Trace.

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He's been a Fulbright scholar
and Fulbright lecturer,

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he's had a Guggenheim
Fellowship, winner

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of the Academy of American Poets
Edgar Allan Poe award in 1976.

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We're very happy to have Charles
Wright here with us today.

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[APPLAUSE]

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