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We tried to list all
the reading sponsored

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by other organizations
in the newsletter

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and I put a few
of the newsletters

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out on the refreshment table
if want to pick one up.

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And please do stay after
the reading and meet Olga.

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Tell her how wonderful she is.

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And have some brownies.

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Unfortunately, we don't
have any of Olga's books

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on sale tonight, but Sonora
Review will be on sale

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and one of the issues on sale
contains some of all this work.

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All of us living in
Provincetown, Massachusetts

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now, where she founded and
is an associate faculty

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member of Free Inc, a fine
arts program for women.

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She writes in
English and in Greek,

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and has translated two
poems of the Greek poet

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Elytis, "The Little
Mariner" and "What I Love".

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Her own books include
Beginning With O,

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which was the winner of the
1977 Yale Younger competition,

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Soie Sauvage, Pastoral Jazz, and
most recently with our own Jane

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Miller, Black Holes
and Black Stockings.

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In addition to the Yale
Younger, her other honors

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include fellowships from
the National Endowment

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for the Arts, and the
Guggenheim Foundation.

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It's a real pleasure to have
her with us, Olga Broumas.

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