Before the reading begins, CK Williams, the poet,
will read on campus on February 2.
Please watch for particulars about the auditorium,
et cetera.
That hasn't been decided yet.
CK Williams on February the 2nd.
The next two poets to come under the auspices of the Ruth
Stephan Poetry Center would be May Swenson, on Tuesday
February 10.
She will read in the Liberal Arts Auditorium at 8:30.
And on February 18, Robert Macy will
read in this auditorium, the Modern Languages.
We are learning to live in a new language.
There is no word for return.
Richard Shelton, however, has come back.
It is with the greatest respect and the greatest
personal pleasure that I tonight introduce to you a man who
needs no introduction from me.
[LAUGHTER]
Many of you, like me, have followed the career
of this man, who is smoothly taking
his place beside the other great poets of this country.
Mr. Shelton's poems have appeared
in virtually every periodical of note, including Kayak,
The Chicago Tribune Magazine, and the New Yorker magazine,
to which he is a regular contributor.
His first collection, Journal of Return,
appeared last fall under the Kayak Press imprint.
A second collection, The Tattooed Desert,
is anticipated for publication late this year.
Both reflect the apparently inexhaustible originality
of Dick Shelton's eyesight.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Richard Shelton.
[APPLAUSE]