It will be three weeks from tonight,
December 4 in this auditorium, and the reader
will be Maxine Kumin.
Leslie Silko, young American Indian poet
will be reading Tuesday, November 19.
The reading is sponsored by the Amerind Club
and Indian studies department.
This room was not available so Miss Silko will
be reading in Economics 111.
You'll probably forget that, just call me
and I'll tell you about it.
And there is a reading this Friday
at the warehouse presented by the poet
publishers of "Pierced Prism," and seven women
will be reading.
That's the warehouse--
911 North 13, at 7:30 PM.
The editors of Window Rock have asked
me to announce that due to a lack of funding,
the magazine will not be available this semester.
Hopefully, funding will be available
so that they can have a spring publication.
And they are still accepting submissions.
We have a box at the Poetry Center,
and they also have a box in the English department.
I hope you can come to the Student Union following
tonight's reading to meet Mr. Williams and talk with him.
John Williams comes to us from the University of Denver
where for many years he's been the director
of their Creative Writing program.
He's published four novels, Nothing
but the Knight, Butcher's Crossing,
Stoner, and most recently Augustus, which was the 1973
National Book Award winner.
Of Augustus, Orville Prescott wrote, "the most brilliant
historical novel I have read in many years,
and absolutely astonishingly impressive
technical performance."
In addition to his novels, Dr. Williams
is a teacher, essayist, and a poet.
And I'm very happy to introduce him to you this evening.
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