I have a few thousand announcements.
If you did not receive a copy of the bookmark announcing
the readings for January, February, I'll
have a stack with me and I'll have them in the reception.
If you did receive a copy it's wrong.
OK.
Mr. Brodsky has changed his date from February 18
to February 20, which is a Friday night.
And the international art society thinks that they have
a movie in here that night, but they don't.
Our next reader is one week from tonight.
He's a novelist, and critic, and essayist, William Gass.
And he will be reading in this auditorium at 8:30 on the 4th.
We are very happy to announce that a new independent magazine
has been published in Tucson, Blue Moon News,
and we will have copies for sale at the reception.
I hope that you will be interested in seeing
it, reading, it and buying it.
The young people who put it out have put a lot
of money and love into it.
I'm very happy to introduce Peter Wild to you tonight.
He's one of my favorite people.
Has been for more years than he might care to remember.
I would like to read you a list of his publications,
but it's too long, so I will mention only that his most
recent book was The Cloning, published in 1974 by Doubleday.
And he has another book coming out from Doubleday next month
called Chihuahua.
His work appears regularly in many little magazines.
In addition to his poetry, he's very active in the Sierra Club,
and other environmental groups.
And I'm very happy to turn the podium over to Peter Wild.