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Good evening.

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We all welcome you on behalf of
the Ruth Stephan Poetry Center

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to a reading of David Ignatow.

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We have three programs
planned for March.

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First, a student reading
in the Terrace Room

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at the Student Union on
Wednesday, March the 10th.

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Tentatively
scheduled to read are

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Stephen Chandler, Tom Cobb,
Mark Doty, Rita Garitano, Sean

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Konecki, and Kathy Waleski.

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In this auditorium on
Wednesday, March 17,

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there will be a faculty reading
by Peter Paraschi and John

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Weston.

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And then, at the
end of March, we

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move to the Liberal Arts
Auditorium, March 22,

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for a reading by John Ciardi.

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Following tonight's
reading, I hope

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you can join us for a
reception in the Terrace

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Room of the Student Union.

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David Ignatow is a
native New Yorker.

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He is currently associated
with two universities.

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He's poet in residence
at York College, which

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is part of the City
College, or part of the City

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University of New York.

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And he's on the faculty
at Columbia University.

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He has been the recipient
of many awards and honors.

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Among them, an award from
the National Institute

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of Arts and Letters, Guggenheim
Fellowship, the Shelley

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Memorial Prize from
the Poetry Society

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of America, a Rockefeller
grant, and a grant

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from the National
Endowment of the Arts.

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In addition to writing
poetry and to teaching,

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he is known as an
editor and a critic.

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He's been associated with The
Nation with the Beloit Poetry

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Journal.

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And currently, he's the
co-editor of Chelsea,

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a semi-annual magazine of the
arts or literary magazine.

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His work is represented in
many anthologies and all

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of the major poetry magazines.

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Wesleyan Press has published
seven books of poetry.

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First, Poems, 1948, The Gentle
Weightlifter, 1955, Say Pardon,

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1962, Figures of the Human,
1964, Rescue the Dead,

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1968, Earth Hard, A Group
of Selected Poems in 1968,

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and A Collection, Poems, 1934
to 1969 published last fall.

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It's a great pleasure to present
to you Mr. David Ignatow.

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[APPLAUSE]

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