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I'm glad you could come
tonight to hear Mark Halperin.

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There's one very
important announcement.

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The punch and cookies will
be in the cellar tonight.

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We couldn't get the
terrace lounge tonight,

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so they've got to set up in the
cellar of the Student Union.

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So, if you go up to the
terrace lounge by mistake,

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there'll be a nice young
man who'd say, no, no, no.

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Go down to the cellar.

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Next Wednesday, February 2nd,
novelist and conservationist,

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Edward Abbey, will read
for us in this auditorium.

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Wednesday, February 2nd.

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The following
evening, Thursday, he

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will read in the
same auditorium,

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same time, same place,
for the Sierra Club.

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Mr. Abbey is best known
for his Desert Solitaire:

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A Season in the Wilderness.

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Two weeks from yesterday,
Norman Dubie and Pamela Stewart

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will read for us selections
from their poetry.

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Mark Halperin, comes
to us from Washington.

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His first collection
of poetry is Back

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Roads, which was the winner of
the International Poetry Forum,

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sponsored by the University
of Pittsburgh Press.

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His work has appeared
widely in such magazines

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as Iowa Review, Shenandoah,
Poetry Northwest,

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Seneca Review, and many others.

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Though he lives in Washington
now, he grew up in New York.

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He received his bachelor's
degree in physics

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from Bard College.

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And if you read the
Wildcat this morning,

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you know that he
earned his living

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as a physicist for several years
before he decided to devote

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his full time to poetry.

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I'm very happy to introduce
him to you this evening.

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Mark Halperin.

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[APPLAUSE]

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