Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
The Ruth Stephan Poetry Center is
pleased to announce the following schedule of readings
for the year.
On November 20, James Tate.
On December 4, Bert Meyers.
On January 14, W. S. Merwin.
On March 5, John Haines.
Also in March, with an uncertain date yet, Owen Dodson.
Mr Gene Frumkin and Mr Douglas Flaherty,
the two poets who will read tonight
in alternating arrangement, are both presently teachers
at the University of New Mexico, where
Mr Frumkin is the head of the creative writing program there.
Douglas Flaherty, a graduate of the writers workshop
at the University of Iowa, has published widely
in poetry magazines in the United States, and Canada,
and England.
A chapbook of his poems, The Elderly Battlefield Nurse
is now in its second printing and is incidentally,
available to buy tonight at the door as you leave.
In addition to his work as a poet,
Mr Flaherty is founder and editor
of Roadrunner Press, which publishes chapbooks of poems
by young poets.
He will soon venture into a new publication
to be called Road Apple Review, a magazine of poetry
of national scope.
Among his prizes for poetry, Doug Flaherty
lists The Literary Society Award for Poetry, 1965,
and a prize in the National Kansas City Poetry Contest
of 1966.
It is with pleasure that the Ruth Stephan Poetry
Center can present Doug Flaherty, Mr Flaherty.
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