We sent out a memo today announcing
that Mary MacArthur, who's the assistant director
of the literature program for the National
Endowment for the Arts, will be visiting the Poetry
Center next Tuesday.
I didn't get an announcement.
I'm sorry.
She'll be there Tuesday afternoon from 2:00 to 4.00.
If you have any questions, just give us a call.
If you'd like to speak with Miss MacArthur and cannot come
to the afternoon session, if you'll give me a message,
I'll see that she gets your number and returns your call.
She'll be here to answer questions
about grants for small presses, how
you apply for a grant for individuals,
that sort of thing.
The writers at work are sponsoring a reading tomorrow
night in the terrace lounge of the Student Union,
and that reading begins at 7:30.
C.E. Poverman of the creative writing faculty
will be reading, and Claudette Wassil-Grimm in the MFA
program, will be reading.
Also tomorrow night, there's a reading at Pima College.
A poet from Ghana named, Atukwei Okai.
And that's at 8:30 in their--
it's that multipurpose building on the south side
of the campus.
Our next reading will not be next Wednesday.
Our next read will be a week from Sunday, the 30th,
at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, at the University Art Museum.
Museum is at corner of Speedway and Highland No, no.
Speedway and Olive.
We're at Speedway in Highland.
Museum's Speedway and Olive.
The reader will be Professor Bowen of the literature faculty
at the University, and he will be
reading from contemporary British writers.
Professor Bowen read for us about five years ago,
and it was a very exciting evening
that gave us an opportunity to meet a lot of new writers
that we weren't familiar with.
And I'm sure this one will also be very exciting.
I hope you can come to the union tonight
to meet Mr. Haas following the reading.
Robert Haas has two books, Field Guide,
which was the 1972 Yale series of younger poets winner,
and Praise.
He lives in Berkeley with his family.
He's very widely published in little magazines
and greatly anthologized.
I'd like to read a very short quote from Stanley
Kunitz about his work.
"Reading a poem by Robert Haas is
like stepping into the ocean when
the temperature of the water is not much
different from that of the air.
You scarcely know until you feel the undertow tug at you
that you have entered into another element.
Suddenly, the deep is there with its teeming life."
I'd like to introduce you to Robert Haas.