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And you can get information
at either the Creative Writing

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Office or at the Poetry Center.

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You have to be a student
at the University.

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And you can win money, and
honors, and distinction,

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and give a reading
for the Poetry Center

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later in the spring.

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So it is a nice way to get
some attention for your work.

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So if you don't know
about it, ask one of us,

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or come by the Poetry
Center before Friday.

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And also, a reading
that is coming up that's

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not on our schedule but you may
be interested in knowing about--

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Luis Rodriguez, a poet
and nonfiction writer,

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is reading next Friday here--

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that's the 11th-- at 7:00 PM.

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He wrote a terrific
memoir Always Running--

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La Vida Loca, Gang Days in LA.

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Grew up in gangs himself and
wrote this book for his son.

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So next Friday here.

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If you want to hear him,
you'll have a chance to do so.

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And also, to let
you know, we have

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Beckian Fritz Goldberg's books
for sale after the reading.

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I'm sure she'll be
happy to sign them.

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And they are with the usual
discount for those of you

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affiliated with the University.

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We've been trying to move
some of our Arizona writers

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around the state a little bit
this year, because we have

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some really exciting
people that we

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don't get to hear often enough.

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And so, tonight we're
very pleased that Beckian

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has come down from Tempe.

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She's the author of two
collections of poetry,

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both published by the Cleveland
State University Poetry Center--

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Body Betrayer and In
the Badlands of Desire.

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She received her MFA
from Vermont College,

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where we were briefly students
together at the same time.

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She's won a fellowship
from the Arizona Commission

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on the Arts as well as
the Theodore Roethke Prize

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from Poetry Northwest.

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Our friend and
teacher, David Wojahn,

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has spoken about the meeting
in her work of passion

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and intelligence.

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She is a writer with a voice
that is lush, brash, hot.

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Her metaphors are stunning.

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She writes with a kind of
cinema of the imagination.

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And we're very happy that she's
here to share her work tonight.

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Please welcome Beckian
Fritz Goldberg.

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[APPLAUSE]

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