WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.340 align:middle line:84% Hear that, we're open on Wednesday nights 00:00:02.340 --> 00:00:05.930 align:middle line:90% now at the Poetry Center. 00:00:05.930 --> 00:00:09.380 align:middle line:84% Normally from 7 to 10 and on evenings 00:00:09.380 --> 00:00:12.402 align:middle line:84% when we have a reading we'll be open from 5 to 8, 00:00:12.402 --> 00:00:14.360 align:middle line:84% so if you'd like to come in and read and listen 00:00:14.360 --> 00:00:16.460 align:middle line:84% to tapes before coming to a reading 00:00:16.460 --> 00:00:18.440 align:middle line:90% we hope you'll use the Center. 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:21.650 align:middle line:84% We're also open on Sunday afternoon. 00:00:21.650 --> 00:00:26.000 align:middle line:84% The first of our visiting poets, who's the British poet Stephen 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:32.630 align:middle line:84% Spender, and his reading will be on Monday night, October 13. 00:00:32.630 --> 00:00:34.940 align:middle line:84% It's the only reading this semester 00:00:34.940 --> 00:00:37.160 align:middle line:84% that will be on a Monday night, everything else 00:00:37.160 --> 00:00:38.990 align:middle line:90% is scheduled for Wednesday. 00:00:38.990 --> 00:00:41.990 align:middle line:84% He'll read in modern languages auditorium. 00:00:41.990 --> 00:00:45.860 align:middle line:84% And he will meet in this room informally with students 00:00:45.860 --> 00:00:48.260 align:middle line:84% on Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock, 00:00:48.260 --> 00:00:51.920 align:middle line:84% and anyone who's interested is welcome to attend. 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:55.550 align:middle line:84% It would be just a question and answers session. 00:00:55.550 --> 00:01:01.340 align:middle line:90% 00:01:01.340 --> 00:01:04.360 align:middle line:84% This is the first time we've had a joint poetry and prose 00:01:04.360 --> 00:01:05.680 align:middle line:90% reading. 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:09.280 align:middle line:84% Michael Cuddihy is reading for us tonight from his poems. 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:11.380 align:middle line:84% He's been writing for seven years 00:01:11.380 --> 00:01:16.340 align:middle line:84% and his work has appeared in such magazines as Kayak, Sumac 00:01:16.340 --> 00:01:18.520 align:middle line:90% and Iowa Review. 00:01:18.520 --> 00:01:24.100 align:middle line:84% He's the editor of Ironwood Magazine, a national magazine. 00:01:24.100 --> 00:01:28.015 align:middle line:84% And Ironwood also publishes a series of chapbooks. 00:01:28.015 --> 00:01:31.360 align:middle line:90% 00:01:31.360 --> 00:01:33.870 align:middle line:84% Michael Cuddihy will read for us first. 00:01:33.870 --> 00:01:36.630 align:middle line:90% Think I've got it at that point.