--and that will be in this auditorium 11 weeks
from tonight.
February 4th.
We will have a new schedule of readings for the new semester.
If you're not on our mailing list and would like to be,
please see me at the reception following tonight's reading.
And that reception will be at the Terrace Lounge
in the Student Union.
If you haven't been over there, it's
the most inaccessible room in the Union.
It's on the second floor as far as you can go.
It's always a great pleasure when
University departments and community groups
can work together, and I'm happy to announce
that tonight's reading is sponsored
not only by the Poetry Center, but by Hebrew Studies, B'nai
B'rith Hillel Foundation, the Tucson Jewish Community
Council, and I would like to introduce to you Rabbi Morton
Levine of Hillel Foundation.
Thank you, Lois.
The B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation,
along with our affiliated group, the Students Concern
for Israel, is very happy to co-sponsor the appearance
of Yehuda Amichai this evening.
We do this as part of our attempts
at providing programming and activities
that present both Jewish and Israeli culture to the campus
community.
Yehuda Amichai, who's our guest this evening,
was born in Germany.
He moved to Palestine-- what was then Palestine-- in 1936.
He lives in Jerusalem, where in addition to his writing poetry
or as he says he writes poetry in addition
to his other activities, he teaches
literature and creative writing at the Hebrew University.
He has published nine collections of poetry
that have been translated in English, some of which
are available in the lobby.
His most recent are the books, Amen and Time.
I'd like to present for you this evening, Mr. Yehuda Amichai.