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Dear Rob, Thank you for the invitation , but I cannot be there.  I am teaching for the term at ASU and caannot get away.  My best wishes to all Kazooers.  tpr

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From: rstillma <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 5:44 am
Subject: Friday Night at Kalamazoo, Sidney/Spenser Invitation
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> April 18, 2006
> 
> Dear Kalamazoo Crew,
> 
> As some of you may have noticed already, there is a Business 
> Meeting for the 
> Sidney Society scheduled at Kalamazoo on Friday evening, May 5th.
> 
> Because of the success of last year's Friday meeting, with 
> readings and 
> discussion sponsored by David Wilson-Okamura and Spenser at 
> Kalamazoo, Sidney 
> at Kalamazoo has been inspired to continue the event with a change 
> of 
> emphasis. We read last year from the Mutability Cantos and 
> primarily lyric 
> poetry, with some prose. This year, we are inviting the Spenser-
> Sidney crew to 
> come to the Business Meeting prepared to read aloud poetry in 
> dialogue form: 
> perhaps an Eclogue from the Calendar or the Arcadia or a sonnet 
> from the 
> Amoretti or Astrophil and Stella or dialogue from The Faerie 
> Queene. As one 
> event for the evening--and there will be, I'm happy to add, an 
> open-bar--a 
> reading of "The Lady of May" will take place, to be followed (as 
> democratic 
> intervention) by a vote on the wisdom of Elizabeth's choice 
> between the 
> suitors.
> 
> So come one and come all, and please bring interesting--and 
> dialogical--matter 
> to read.
> 
> Good wishes in advance of Kalamazoo!
> 
> Rob Stillman
>