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I have a whole series
of announcements.

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I hope you will join us
after the reading for punch

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and goodies in the hall.

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The next reading in our
visiting poet series

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will be Wednesday,
November 12, with poet Jack

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Gilbert in this
auditorium at 8 o'clock.

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The Wednesday after
that, November 19,

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is the graduate student reading
with some of this year's MFA

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poetry candidates.

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Matt Markovich, Jihyuk Han, Kate
Rosenberg, and Robert Hepworth.

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That too will be in this
auditorium at 8 o'clock.

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LaVerne Clark will
read from her new book

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at 3:00 PM at the Poetry Center
on November 20, that's Thursday.

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And a co-sponsored event with
the University of Arizona

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extended university's
writing work center,

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authors Adrian Castro
and Victor Hernandez Cruz

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will give a workshop and
reading this Saturday.

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Information about these
events is in the lobby.

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Tonight's reader,
Brenda Hillman,

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will also give a talk:
Alternative Punctuation

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in Contemporary Poetry tomorrow
evening at the Dinnerware

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Gallery at 7:00.

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That's Thursday evening,
tomorrow at 7:00.

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The talk is co-sponsored
by POG and Chax Press,

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and made possible by support
from the Arizona Humanities

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Council.

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To introduce Brenda Hillman, we
have the University of Arizona

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creative writing
Professor Jane Miller.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Welcome.

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In an age where the superficial
poem or the purely experimental

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one has made a
noise, Brenda Hillman

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has made a music by anticipating
the next wave of soul searching

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in American writing.

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She is fearless about
taking on huge themes.

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Fearless about
introducing dozens

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of tones from the
humorous to the reverent.

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Fearless about self revelation.

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Who among us, writers,
readers, students of the art,

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can not only show poise in
the face of such exposure,

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but also tenderness.

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The early poems
of "Coffee 3 A.M."

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and "White Dress" anticipate
her fooling around

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with form and content with
freewheeling confidence.

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Fooling around that is, as the
fool in alchemical terms fools.

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With a wisdom that especially in
the new poems of "Loose Sugar"

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sets a standard for
other poets' struggles,

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and invites a new readership
of contemporary poetry,

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to see the world in
its multiplicity.

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Please join me in
welcoming home to Tucson

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a poet whose bright
existence demands

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that we examine beyond the
edge of the natural world.

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Winner of such honors as the
Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award,

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the Poetry Society of America's
Norma Farber First Book Prize,

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and Guggenheim and National
Endowment Fellowships.

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Ladies and gentlemen,
home-girl Brenda Hillman.

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[APPLAUSE]

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