Welcome to the second in the series of readings
sponsored by the Poetry Center.
The third in our series will be two weeks from tonight.
James Welch, young American Indian poet from Montana
will be reading in this auditorium.
That's November 10, 8:30 PM.
May I invite you to join us for a reception honoring
Mr. Redgrove and Mr. Thomas following tonight's reading.
The terrace room on the Student Union.
That's in the older section of the Student Union.
The second floor.
The Northwest section of the Student Union.
Smoking is not allowed in the auditorium.
Tonight's visiting poets come to us from Great Britain.
D.M Thomas, Don Thomas from Cornwall, England.
He is currently associated as the senior lecturer in English
at Hereford College Of Education.
His work has appeared widely in English little magazines.
It's most readily available in the United States
as part of the Penguin Modern Poets 11.
And most recently represented in the triquarterly anthology
entitled An Anthology of Contemporary British Poetry.
His newest book was released last month.
It's entitled Logan Stone and is available in the United States
to Viking Press.
Mr. Peter Redgrove has published six volumes of poetry.
His work is very widely distributed also
in the little magazines.
He represented with Mr. Thomas and also
with D.M Black in the Penguin Modern Poets 11 series.
He's a lecturer in complementary studies at the Falmouth
School of Art in Cornwall.
Mr. Redgrove's newest book will be published in the spring
by Rutledge it's called Dr. Faust's Sea-Spiral Spirit.
Mr. Redgrove is also represented in a book whose title I love,
called the book, The Penguin Book of Sick Verse.
Mr. Thomas will read first, and then they
have some things they will read together.
We welcome Mr. D.M Don Thomas.
[APPLAUSE]