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Good evening, ladies
and gentlemen.

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The Ruth Stephan
Poetry Center is

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pleased to announce the
following schedule of readings

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for the year.

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On November 20, James Tate.

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On December 4, Bert Meyers.

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On January 14, W. S. Merwin.

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On March 5, John Haines.

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Also in March, with an
uncertain date yet, Owen Dodson.

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Mr Gene Frumkin and
Mr Douglas Flaherty,

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the two poets who
will read tonight

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in alternating arrangement,
are both presently teachers

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at the University
of New Mexico, where

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Mr Frumkin is the head of the
creative writing program there.

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Douglas Flaherty, a graduate
of the writers workshop

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at the University of
Iowa, has published widely

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in poetry magazines in the
United States, and Canada,

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and England.

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A chapbook of his poems, The
Elderly Battlefield Nurse

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is now in its second
printing and is incidentally,

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available to buy tonight
at the door as you leave.

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In addition to his
work as a poet,

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Mr Flaherty is
founder and editor

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of Roadrunner Press, which
publishes chapbooks of poems

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by young poets.

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He will soon venture
into a new publication

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to be called Road Apple
Review, a magazine of poetry

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of national scope.

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Among his prizes for
poetry, Doug Flaherty

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lists The Literary Society
Award for Poetry, 1965,

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and a prize in the National
Kansas City Poetry Contest

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of 1966.

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It is with pleasure that
the Ruth Stephan Poetry

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Center can present Doug
Flaherty, Mr Flaherty.

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[APPLAUSE]

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