WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.320 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:07.170 align:middle line:84% October the 14th, 1970, Poetry Reading Center. 00:00:07.170 --> 00:00:10.410 align:middle line:84% This is being recorded in Terrace Room, the Student 00:00:10.410 --> 00:00:12.920 align:middle line:90% Union. 00:00:12.920 --> 00:00:17.250 align:middle line:84% --welcome you to this first reading on behalf of the Ruth 00:00:17.250 --> 00:00:21.150 align:middle line:84% Stephan Poetry Center, and announce the second reading 00:00:21.150 --> 00:00:25.515 align:middle line:84% will be by Galway Kinnell on Tuesday, October 20th, 00:00:25.515 --> 00:00:29.680 align:middle line:84% in the Modern Languages auditorium at 8:30. 00:00:29.680 --> 00:00:30.370 align:middle line:90% Next Tuesday. 00:00:30.370 --> 00:00:33.010 align:middle line:90% 00:00:33.010 --> 00:00:36.760 align:middle line:84% We have three readers this evening, all of whom 00:00:36.760 --> 00:00:39.430 align:middle line:90% are very talented people. 00:00:39.430 --> 00:00:43.340 align:middle line:84% They have in common the fact that they live in Arizona, 00:00:43.340 --> 00:00:45.670 align:middle line:84% they're all poets, none of them are affiliated 00:00:45.670 --> 00:00:47.740 align:middle line:90% with the University of Arizona. 00:00:47.740 --> 00:00:51.050 align:middle line:84% Beyond that, they don't have too much in common. 00:00:51.050 --> 00:00:54.130 align:middle line:90% First is Michael Cuddihy. 00:00:54.130 --> 00:00:56.950 align:middle line:84% Michael was born in New York City, educated 00:00:56.950 --> 00:01:00.190 align:middle line:84% at the University of Notre Dame, Columbia University, 00:01:00.190 --> 00:01:02.710 align:middle line:90% and University of Arizona. 00:01:02.710 --> 00:01:07.120 align:middle line:84% He has been an Arizona resident since 1956. 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:10.870 align:middle line:84% His poetry has appeared in Kayak, Cloud Marauder, 00:01:10.870 --> 00:01:14.800 align:middle line:84% The Tongue, Commonweal, and others. 00:01:14.800 --> 00:01:19.090 align:middle line:84% His work will be appearing soon in Sumac, Shenandoah Quarterly, 00:01:19.090 --> 00:01:22.360 align:middle line:84% and the Chicago Tribune Magazine. 00:01:22.360 --> 00:01:24.730 align:middle line:84% In the spring of 1968, Mr. Cuddihy 00:01:24.730 --> 00:01:27.596 align:middle line:84% published a translation of Jacques Maritain's 00:01:27.596 --> 00:01:30.820 align:middle line:84% The Peasant of the Garonne, a book of philosophy 00:01:30.820 --> 00:01:33.770 align:middle line:90% and theology. 00:01:33.770 --> 00:01:35.840 align:middle line:84% He has also published several reviews 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:38.660 align:middle line:84% of works dealing with European history in thought 00:01:38.660 --> 00:01:39.890 align:middle line:90% and in America. 00:01:39.890 --> 00:01:43.410 align:middle line:90% 00:01:43.410 --> 00:01:44.800 align:middle line:84% Gives me a great deal of pleasure 00:01:44.800 --> 00:01:50.110 align:middle line:84% to introduce a very dear friend, a very fine poet, Michael 00:01:50.110 --> 00:01:51.817 align:middle line:90% Cuddihy. 00:01:51.817 --> 00:01:55.100 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:01:55.100 --> 00:01:57.445 align:middle line:90% 00:01:57.445 --> 00:01:59.640 align:middle line:90% A little closer, OK. 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:02.358 align:middle line:90%