I'm happy to see you all back, and happy to have
this opportunity to introduce Jane Miller to a Tucson
audience.
Of course, I have a few thousand announcements first.
If you didn't get a schedule of events,
there's a stack on the refreshment table.
Please stay.
I understand the union made a mistake
and sent us a double order of brownies.
[LAUGHTER]
If you didn't get one because you're not on our mailing list,
we'd be very happy to put you on the mailing list.
And I put some index cards on the refreshment table too.
If you will give us your name and address,
we'll be happy to send future announcements to you.
What has been the Mosaic Readings has a new name.
It's called the Lamplight Reading Series.
It will be in the same place, still
at Bentley's Coffee House on the first Sunday of the month.
So this Sunday night, the 7th, will be their next reading
there.
And the readers will be Charles Alexander,
Doug Meyers, Ed Garrett.
Bentley's is on Speedway.
About 1400 block of East Speedway.
Those readings begin at seven.
There's a special reading next Tuesday night
on the public access cable station
channel 64, which will feature readings live by Tucson poets.
It's sponsored by Unbitten Tongue Productions.
I love that name.
[LAUGHTER]
Our Pamela Portwood was the organizer.
And the readers will be beginning at eight o'clock,
and continuing until eleven at night.
Gury Anderman, Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Rattee,
John Hudak, Will Inman, Beth Louis Neon, Phyllis Wolfe,
Agha Shahid Ali, Pat Covey, Sandy Florence, Cynthia Hogue,
and Karen Brennan.
That's Tuesday evening from eight
to eleven on the Public Access channel, channel 64,
and they will be reading live.
We have a total of nine readings between now and November 5th.
All of the readings except one will be on Wednesday night.
Kenneth Koch's reading will be on Thursday night.
And the first set of readings will be in this auditorium.
And folks who are reading will also
be in a different auditorium, the Harvill Auditorium,
because we couldn't get this place for Wednesday night.
So do make a note of that.
And then our two final readings will be student readings.
And we had a wonderful time last year
having the student readings at the university museum,
so we're going back there this year.
If you weren't able to come to any of those,
it's a wonderful place to sit and listen to poetry.
We're very grateful to the museum
for making it available to us.
As you know, our next visitor will be Thom Gunn,
and that's one week from tonight here.
Jane Miller will be with us all this year
on the creative writing faculty.
She's come to us most recently from Iowa.
Her poetry collections are Many Junipers, Heartbeats.
That's from Copper Beech Press.
The Greater Leisures from Doubleday.
And with Olga Broumas, Black Holes,
Black Stockings from Wesleyan University Press.
Her work has been widely anthologized,
and appears in many little magazines.
Her honors include grants from the National Endowment
for the Arts, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the National Poetry
Series, The Nation, and others.
In addition to her teaching here and at Iowa,
she's also taught at Goddard.
It's a great pleasure to introduce Jane Miller to you.
[APPLAUSE]
Thank you.
We got them quick.