Louise Bogan will read in this auditorium at 8:30.
Later in the series, we have Mr. John Crowe Ransom, Mr. George
Reavey.
The dates will be announced later.
Mr. Robert Bly, who will read for us this evening
comes to us from his farm in Madison, Minnesota.
He is a graduate of Harvard University
and State University of Iowa.
Mr. Bly is the founder and editor of the very important
little magazine, The 60s, formerly called The 50s.
Which is furnished a much needed medium
for translation of European and South American poetry.
Mr. Bly, himself, is a highly reputed translator
of Scandinavian and Spanish poetry.
His first collection of his own poetry, Silence
In The Snowy Field was published by Wesleyan University
Press in 1962.
It shows Mr. Bly's significant concern
with solitude and silence, although he
is anything but a silent man.
As a matter of fact, he is the co-organizer
of an articulate organization called American Writers
Against the Vietnam War.
Mr. Bly has published several major works
of translations in Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and Spanish.
His next collection of his own poems
which will have the title, 40 Poems Touching
On Recent American History, is now in the press.
This very sketchy sketch does not really
give you an indication of the man, especially
of the one probably most noticeable feature of the man,
and that is his absolute charm.
I shall have to leave that to you to find out for yourselves.
But it gives me a great deal of pleasure
to welcome and to present you, Mr. Robert Bly.
[APPLAUSE]