Although this is our last reading for the semester,
there is one more reading at Pima College.
Tomorrow night on the west campus,
Van K. Brock will be reading.
That's at 8:30 in the student center.
We hope you can come to the Union
for reception for Mr. Penner tonight.
We'll be in the Terrace Room, which
is on the third floor in the far west end of the building.
And copies of Mr. Penner's book will be on sale tonight.
This is our ninth and last reading for the semester.
So far as scheduled fall to spring,
we have David Ignatow, Louis Simpson, Ira Sadoff,
and Raymond Carver.
And other programs will be announced later.
We're very happy to have Jonathan Penner on faculty
in the creative writing department this year.
He was due to join us last year.
He received a Guggenheim Fellowship
and delayed his appointment.
He has published one novel, Going Blind,
and his work appears in such magazines
as the Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, the Louis--
excuse me, Louisville Review, Cimarron Review, TriQuarterly,
and others.
In addition to the Guggenheim Fellowship that I mentioned,
he's been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts
creative writing fellowship, Friends of American Writers
Distinguished Recognition Award, and Great Lakes Colleges
Association for New Writers Award.
I'm very happy to introduce to you tonight, Jonathan Penner.
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