No smoking in the auditorium.
The colloquy, which begins tomorrow--
we'll have four separate poetry events.
Mr. Peroski will be reading, Mr. Roecker, Franz Douskey,
and there will be a poetry workshop for the schedule
of the different events.
You'll have to check in the Student Union.
The colloquy headquarters are at the old newsstand.
Can you hear me in the back?
No.
[LAUGHS]
Can you hear me now?
I think I'll go home.
[LAUGHTER]
The last program of the year will be the student awards
presentation.
A week from tomorrow in the terrace room
of the Student Union.
Poetry Center acting as the agent
for the Academy of American Poets
will be presenting a prize of $100 and various other prizes
totaling an additional $150.
We hope that you can attend the awards presentation next week.
We invite you to a reception for Mr. Strand following
tonight's reading in the terrace room of the Student Union.
Mark Strand has been associated with the University of Brazil
as a Fulbright fellow.
University of Washington, Columbia University,
and Yale University.
His honors include a Cook Prize and Bergen
Prize from Yale University, a Fulbright scholarship to Italy,
Ingram Merrill fellowship, the National Council of the Arts
award, and a Rockefeller award.
He has published three books of poetry.
Sleeping With One Eye Open, Reasons For Moving,
and most recently Darker.
He is the editor of an anthology called The Contemporary
American Poets.
His own work is represented in several anthologies
and many periodicals.
It is my pleasure to welcome our last in our visiting series
for this year, Mr. Mark Strand.
[APPLAUSE]
[SOUND OF MIC BEING ADJUSTED]