Well I have several thousand announcements to make.
First, smoking is not allowed in the auditorium.
The Poetry Center for several years
has acted as the agent for the Academy of American Poets
to distribute prize money at a spring contest.
The Academy offers a $100 prize for student poetry,
and we usually have money from a few private sources
and from the Student Union Activities Board.
The rules for this year's contest
will be available the first of next week.
We invite you to a reception following tonight's reading
in the Terrace room at the Student Union.
There are three forthcoming poetry readings
in the next six days.
Tomorrow night at Pima College in the cafeteria of building A,
Florence Anthony will read at 8:30.
The following Wednesday in the same cafeteria Kofi Awoonor,
will read.
He is appearing as one of the poetry in the schools
program, part of the State Commission for the Arts.
And our next poet will read Tuesday night
in the Gallagher theater, that will be Richard Eberhart.
Philip Levine, comes to us from Fresno, California,
where he's associated with the English department at Fresno
State.
He's originally from Detroit.
He's been represented in all of the leading poetry magazines
in several anthologies.
His books are On The Edge, Not This Pig, Five Detroits,
Red Dust, Pillay's Wall, and most recently from Athenaeum
They Feed They Lion.
It's my pleasure to introduce Philip Levine.
[APPLAUSE]