I'm glad you could come tonight to hear Mark Halperin.
There's one very important announcement.
The punch and cookies will be in the cellar tonight.
We couldn't get the terrace lounge tonight,
so they've got to set up in the cellar of the Student Union.
So, if you go up to the terrace lounge by mistake,
there'll be a nice young man who'd say, no, no, no.
Go down to the cellar.
Next Wednesday, February 2nd, novelist and conservationist,
Edward Abbey, will read for us in this auditorium.
Wednesday, February 2nd.
The following evening, Thursday, he
will read in the same auditorium,
same time, same place, for the Sierra Club.
Mr. Abbey is best known for his Desert Solitaire:
A Season in the Wilderness.
Two weeks from yesterday, Norman Dubie and Pamela Stewart
will read for us selections from their poetry.
Mark Halperin, comes to us from Washington.
His first collection of poetry is Back
Roads, which was the winner of the International Poetry Forum,
sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
His work has appeared widely in such magazines
as Iowa Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest,
Seneca Review, and many others.
Though he lives in Washington now, he grew up in New York.
He received his bachelor's degree in physics
from Bard College.
And if you read the Wildcat this morning,
you know that he earned his living
as a physicist for several years before he decided to devote
his full time to poetry.
I'm very happy to introduce him to you this evening.
Mark Halperin.
[APPLAUSE]