Good evening.
I must remind you that smoking is not
allowed in the auditorium.
Our next poet will read in this auditorium three weeks
from tonight, Wednesday, December 1st, Michigan poet,
Dan Gerber.
Our first student reading will be
one week from tonight, November 17th,
in the terrace room at the Student Union.
We will have four readers John Bothy,
Shirley Howard, Patrick Murphy, and Judy Samson.
That's one week from tonight in the terrace room at the Student
Union.
Also tonight in the terrace room at the Student Union,
we invite you to meet Mr Welch at a reception following
the reading.
Mr Welch, James Welch comes to us from Missoula.
He was a student at the University of Minnesota
at Northern Montana College and completed
his undergraduate studies at the University of Montana.
He's very widely published, young poet.
His first book was published this year
by World Publishing Company.
It's called Riding the Earthboy 40.
His poems among other magazines have appeared-- his poems
have appeared in among others Hearse, Inscape, Kayak, The New
Yorker, Poetry Northwest, Harper's Bazaar, Poetry, New
American Review number four, Intro one.
In addition to his poetry writing,
Mr Welch is currently working on a novel.
By happy coincidence, Mr Welch appears in conjunction
with American Indian Week on campus.
We invited Mr Welch last spring as a poet not as an Indian.
It's only coincidental that his appearance comes
with American Indian Week.
I'm happy to introduce to you a young man who
is very generous with his time and talents, Mr James Welch.
Thank you.