I'm asked to remind you that smoking is not
allowed in the auditorium.
I would like to apologize if any of you
were inconvenienced by the cancellation of Denise
Levertov's reading last month.
We hope to be able to reschedule an appearance by Miss Levertov.
The next program of the University Poetry Center
will be a student reading three weeks from tonight, December 6,
in the terrace room of the Student Union.
Four graduate students will read,
Rhoda Goldberg, Raleigh Kant, Greg Papes, and Paula Bankoff.
I hope you can come to the reception for Mr. Root
at the Terrace Room tonight following the reading.
William Pit Root comes to us under the auspices of the State
Council for the Arts.
Born in Austin, Minnesota in 1941,
he's one of the youngest poets to appear on our series.
He was educated at the University
of Washington, the University of North Carolina.
His honors include, an Academy of American Poets
Prize, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.
He has taught at Stanford University, and Michigan State
University.
Mr. Root has one volume of poems published by Athenaeum in 1969,
called The Storm and Other Poems.
His work has appeared very widely in magazines,
I'll mention only a few.
The Atlantic Monthly, Beloit Poetry Journal, Hudson Review,
and The Nation.
I'm sure you'll enjoy hearing William Pitt Root.
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