You may have noticed that I am not Lois Shelton.
Well, actually, I'm Lois in drag.
You'd never recognize me.
There are a couple of announcements
I'd like to make before I introduce our reader.
First is that the usual punch and cookies will be available
in the terraced lounge afterward if you'd
like to speak with Mr. Justice, and you're all invited.
Second is that there is no smoking in the auditorium.
Third is that William Pitt Root will be reading at Pima College
next Tuesday at 8:30.
I'm told that you'll have to call for particulars,
although I see Bob Langone in the audience,
and he should be able to tell you what those particulars are.
Student Center Downtown Campus.
Student Center Downtown Campus at 8:30.
[INAUDIBLE]
At 8:30.
OK.
[INAUDIBLE]
Room 209.
It's the Downtown Campus.
You have to come dressed in a Texaco uniform
with an air gauge in your pocket.
Poetry class is there too.
Oh, portrait class is there too.
With a Texaco air gauge in your pocket.
Donald Justice's books of poetry include The Selected Poems,
which was the 1980 Pulitzer Prize winner, Departures,
Night Light, and The Summer Anniversaries.
He edited the collected poems of Weldon Keyes
and co-edited Contemporary French Poetry.
He is also a translator, French and Spanish,
a scholar, short story writer represented
in two issues of Prize Stories, the O. Henry awards,
a reviewer, and teacher.
He is currently on leave from the University
of Iowa, a visiting professor at the University of Virginia,
and soon to be in Florida at Gainesville.
Other honors and awards include three National Endowment
for the Arts fellowships, a Rockefeller fellowship,
a Lamont Poetry Prize, a citation and award
from the National Institute of Arts and Letters,
and a Guggenheim fellowship.
It's with great and sincere pleasure
I give you Donald Justice.
[APPLAUSE]
Thanks, Bob.
It's nice to be here again.
I doubt if any of you here 11 years ago
when I was last here What I remember about it myself
is it wasn't the glass of water.
There was a carafe of water, and about halfway through I
stepped in it, having put it not up here but down there,
and I won't be able to do it tonight
if anybody came back for a repeat performance of that.
Are the acoustics good enough so that my voice at this level
can be heard toward the back?
OK, thank you.
All right.