I'm very happy you could come, and I
hope you can all come to the terrace lounge
after the reading to meet Tess Gallagher.
Terrace lounge is upstairs in the student union.
As you know, if you have received our bookmark,
we have a very full and, I think,
exciting schedule for the spring.
One week from tomorrow, Thursday, 27th, Mark Halperin
will read in this auditorium.
We tried to put everything on Wednesday
to make it easy to remember, but it just didn't work out.
The following week, February 2nd, Edward Abbey, novelist,
conservationist will read.
The following week, Norman Dubie and Pamela Stewart
will present a joint reading.
And then you get a week off before William Kloefkorn
reads and a week off before Steven Orlen reads for us.
And then after spring vacation, we're still a little bit
up in the air about it, but we're
pretty sure that Bill Merwin will read for us,
and Wallace Stegner definitely will read for us in April.
But the next reading is a week from tomorrow, Thursday,
the 27th, Mark Halperin.
Tess Gallagher is teaching in upstate New York
at Kirkland College, Clinton, New York.
Her original home is Port Angeles, Washington.
Her first full length collection of poems
appeared just a few months ago.
It's called Instructions to the Double.
It came out under the auspices of the Graywolf Press.
Her work has appeared in numerous magazines.
She's a very fine lady, very nice with students,
and I know you're going to be very
happy to hear her this evening.
Miss Tess Gallagher.