WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.670 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.670 --> 00:00:06.000 align:middle line:84% There'll be a reading Wednesday night at the Poetry Center 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:07.185 align:middle line:90% on the lawn at 7:30. 00:00:07.185 --> 00:00:09.120 align:middle line:84% It's sponsored by the organization 00:00:09.120 --> 00:00:11.370 align:middle line:84% for graduate readings in English. 00:00:11.370 --> 00:00:14.220 align:middle line:84% And the readers will be, Maurice Stanton, the creative writing 00:00:14.220 --> 00:00:19.170 align:middle line:84% faculty, and Sinda Thompson, MFA candidate. 00:00:19.170 --> 00:00:23.130 align:middle line:84% Our second reader this afternoon is Leonard Michaels. 00:00:23.130 --> 00:00:25.950 align:middle line:84% He's published two collections of short stories, 00:00:25.950 --> 00:00:30.900 align:middle line:84% Going Places, which was the 1969 National Book Award nominee, 00:00:30.900 --> 00:00:34.570 align:middle line:84% and I Would Have Saved Them If I Could. 00:00:34.570 --> 00:00:36.570 align:middle line:84% He's currently on sabbatical from the University 00:00:36.570 --> 00:00:38.820 align:middle line:90% of California in Berkeley. 00:00:38.820 --> 00:00:44.370 align:middle line:84% His work has appeared in American Review, Atlantis-- 00:00:44.370 --> 00:00:48.720 align:middle line:84% Atlantic, excuse me, Esquire, New American Review, 00:00:48.720 --> 00:00:53.130 align:middle line:84% Partisan Review, Paris Review, Transatlantic Review, 00:00:53.130 --> 00:00:54.630 align:middle line:90% and other periodicals. 00:00:54.630 --> 00:00:56.570 align:middle line:90% Leonard Michaels. 00:00:56.570 --> 00:01:02.094 align:middle line:90%