WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.009 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.009 --> 00:00:03.880 align:middle line:90% Good evening. 00:00:03.880 --> 00:00:06.090 align:middle line:84% I must remind you that smoking is not 00:00:06.090 --> 00:00:07.710 align:middle line:90% allowed in the auditorium. 00:00:07.710 --> 00:00:10.960 align:middle line:90% 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:16.480 align:middle line:84% Our next poet will read in this auditorium three weeks 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:21.760 align:middle line:84% from tonight, Wednesday, December 1st, Michigan poet, 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:22.630 align:middle line:90% Dan Gerber. 00:00:22.630 --> 00:00:25.400 align:middle line:90% 00:00:25.400 --> 00:00:28.970 align:middle line:84% Our first student reading will be 00:00:28.970 --> 00:00:34.940 align:middle line:84% one week from tonight, November 17th, 00:00:34.940 --> 00:00:38.690 align:middle line:84% in the terrace room at the Student Union. 00:00:38.690 --> 00:00:42.980 align:middle line:84% We will have four readers John Bothy, 00:00:42.980 --> 00:00:49.040 align:middle line:84% Shirley Howard, Patrick Murphy, and Judy Samson. 00:00:49.040 --> 00:00:52.490 align:middle line:84% That's one week from tonight in the terrace room at the Student 00:00:52.490 --> 00:00:55.100 align:middle line:90% Union. 00:00:55.100 --> 00:00:58.190 align:middle line:84% Also tonight in the terrace room at the Student Union, 00:00:58.190 --> 00:01:02.385 align:middle line:84% we invite you to meet Mr Welch at a reception following 00:01:02.385 --> 00:01:02.885 align:middle line:90% the reading. 00:01:02.885 --> 00:01:08.850 align:middle line:90% 00:01:08.850 --> 00:01:12.340 align:middle line:84% Mr Welch, James Welch comes to us from Missoula. 00:01:12.340 --> 00:01:15.480 align:middle line:90% 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.950 align:middle line:84% He was a student at the University of Minnesota 00:01:19.950 --> 00:01:24.270 align:middle line:84% at Northern Montana College and completed 00:01:24.270 --> 00:01:26.610 align:middle line:84% his undergraduate studies at the University of Montana. 00:01:26.610 --> 00:01:30.690 align:middle line:90% 00:01:30.690 --> 00:01:34.540 align:middle line:84% He's very widely published, young poet. 00:01:34.540 --> 00:01:37.410 align:middle line:84% His first book was published this year 00:01:37.410 --> 00:01:40.080 align:middle line:90% by World Publishing Company. 00:01:40.080 --> 00:01:43.305 align:middle line:84% It's called Riding the Earthboy 40. 00:01:43.305 --> 00:01:45.920 align:middle line:90% 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:50.420 align:middle line:84% His poems among other magazines have appeared-- his poems 00:01:50.420 --> 00:01:56.090 align:middle line:84% have appeared in among others Hearse, Inscape, Kayak, The New 00:01:56.090 --> 00:02:03.860 align:middle line:84% Yorker, Poetry Northwest, Harper's Bazaar, Poetry, New 00:02:03.860 --> 00:02:08.810 align:middle line:84% American Review number four, Intro one. 00:02:08.810 --> 00:02:10.280 align:middle line:84% In addition to his poetry writing, 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:12.110 align:middle line:84% Mr Welch is currently working on a novel. 00:02:12.110 --> 00:02:15.280 align:middle line:90% 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:19.090 align:middle line:84% By happy coincidence, Mr Welch appears in conjunction 00:02:19.090 --> 00:02:22.870 align:middle line:84% with American Indian Week on campus. 00:02:22.870 --> 00:02:29.530 align:middle line:84% We invited Mr Welch last spring as a poet not as an Indian. 00:02:29.530 --> 00:02:32.170 align:middle line:84% It's only coincidental that his appearance comes 00:02:32.170 --> 00:02:34.060 align:middle line:90% with American Indian Week. 00:02:34.060 --> 00:02:36.430 align:middle line:84% I'm happy to introduce to you a young man who 00:02:36.430 --> 00:02:40.135 align:middle line:84% is very generous with his time and talents, Mr James Welch. 00:02:40.135 --> 00:02:51.820 align:middle line:90% 00:02:51.820 --> 00:02:53.640 align:middle line:90% Thank you.