Hi.
I'm glad you're all here.
Before I introduce Florence, I've got a few announcements.
There are several poetry readings coming up.
First, next Tuesday, March 21, Richard Eberhart.
U of A, Gallagher Theater, Student Union 8:30.
Next Wednesday, March 22, here, Kofi Awoonor of Ghana at 8:30.
Here, I mean right here.
Also, I'm sure you'll be aware, sometime during the evening
that next door is Ken Kesey's One
Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.
That's planning tonight, tomorrow night, Saturday,
and the same next week.
I asked Florence for some pertinent information
and she gave me a biography, sort of.
Born in the Southwest, the screen door of America,
on October 21, 1947.
Libra with a Leo rising sign and Capricorn moon.
Reads more fiction than poetry.
Published in Sumac, Little Bolero, Iowa Review, Choice,
Trans-Pacific, Another Poetry Anthology, Naked Poetry Number
2, Ironwood, and others.
She'll have a chapbook coming out, fall '72.
Also, her poems were read via tape on the BBC Poetry Series 3
talk show.
I'd like to add some pertinent information of my own.
As recently as two months ago, she loved Screaming Yellow
Zonkers, and she'd like to buy the defunct used car
lot next door to her apartment and sell elephants.
Florence Anthony.
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