Good evening.
Welcome to the reading of Mr Paul Zimmer for the Ruth
Stephan Poetry Center.
Our next reading will be two weeks from tonight Wednesday,
February 17.
In this auditorium Mr David Ignatow.
You are invited to a reception for Mr Zimmer following
tonight's reading in the Terrace Lounge of the Student Union.
If you have not received our schedule of events
for the spring semester, they will
be available at the reception.
Mr Zimmer is a native of Ohio.
He's the assistant director of the University
of Pittsburgh Press.
He is on leave for the spring to act as poet in residence
at Chico State College in Chico, California.
Mr Zimmer has published three volumes of poetry,
A Seed On The Wind in 1960, The Ribs
Of Death 1967, The Republic of Many Voices in 1969.
His work is represented in two anthologies, Poetry:
An Introduction and Anthology, and Contemporary American
Poetry.
Among the magazines, he has contributed
to Poetry Northwest, Yankee, Prairie Schooner,
Virginia Quarterly Review, Field, and others.
It's my privilege to introduce to you tonight Mr Paul Zimmer.
Thank you.
[APPLAUSE]