Please excuse our delay.
The next reading will be April 14 in the Modern Languages
Auditorium.
And Ruth Stephan will be our guest poet.
You are invited tonight to a reception
honoring Mr. Ciardi in the Terrace Room of the Student
Union.
Mr. Ciardi comes to us tonight as a poet,
but he's also known as a lecturer, critic, editor,
and translator.
He has been a lecturer at Bread Loaf since 1947.
He's now the director of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.
I'm sure you're all familiar with his translations.
He has just completed the third and final volume
of Dante's Divine Comedy.
Since 1956, Mr. Ciardi has been the poetry editor
of The Saturday Review.
His work is represented in more than a dozen anthologies.
You'll be happy to know I'm not going to read them.
He's written seven volumes of Children's Verse.
Most recently, Someone Could Win a Polar Bear.
His 13th volume of verse, The Lives of X
will be released in May by Rutgers University Press.
It's my pleasure to present to you tonight, Mr John Ciardi.
[APPLAUSE]