Our next reading will be two weeks from tonight
in this auditorium.
It'll be a fiction reading by Stanley Elkin.
Two fine poets will be reading in town next Thursday
night, but not at the same time in the same place.
Antonio Cisneros of Peru will be reading
for the romance languages department
in this building, room 311.
That's Thursday the 1st.
And Gary Soto will be reading at Pima College the same day.
I hope you'll come to the union to meet Ira Sadoff tonight.
And copies of his books will be on sale tonight.
If you haven't been before, the reception
is in the terrace lounge, which is on the third floor
on the west end of the union.
Ira Sadoff comes to us from Colby, Maine--
or, Colby College rather, in Waterville, Maine.
His books of poetry are Settling Down and Palm
Reading in Winter.
His work has been widely anthologized
and appears in all the usual magazines.
He also writes short fiction.
His short fiction has been included in Prized Stories
of 1976, the O. Henry Awards.
He was cofounder and coeditor of the Seneca Review,
and from 1974 to 1978 was the poetry editor
of the Antioch Review.
I'm very happy to welcome Ira Sadoff.
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