WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.720 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:04.290 align:middle line:84% Our next reading is two weeks from tonight. 00:00:04.290 --> 00:00:07.770 align:middle line:90% Wednesday, March 9. 00:00:07.770 --> 00:00:11.550 align:middle line:84% And our reader is Stephen Orlen of the University Creative 00:00:11.550 --> 00:00:12.886 align:middle line:90% Writing Faculty. 00:00:12.886 --> 00:00:16.148 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:00:16.148 --> 00:00:17.550 align:middle line:90% 00:00:17.550 --> 00:00:23.250 align:middle line:84% We have five readings scheduled for the period following 00:00:23.250 --> 00:00:24.750 align:middle line:90% spring break. 00:00:24.750 --> 00:00:28.680 align:middle line:84% And we have a new bookmark coming out, hopefully, 00:00:28.680 --> 00:00:29.640 align:middle line:90% the end of next week. 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:32.189 align:middle line:90% 00:00:32.189 --> 00:00:33.960 align:middle line:84% The readings following the spring break 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:39.390 align:middle line:84% include the contest awards reading, 00:00:39.390 --> 00:00:42.510 align:middle line:84% an undergraduate student reading, 00:00:42.510 --> 00:00:47.790 align:middle line:84% Hispanic-American reading, visiting novelist Wallace 00:00:47.790 --> 00:00:50.385 align:middle line:90% Stegner, and Poet WS Merwin. 00:00:50.385 --> 00:00:56.800 align:middle line:90% 00:00:56.800 --> 00:00:59.980 align:middle line:84% Bill Kloefkorn comes to us from Lincoln, Nebraska. 00:00:59.980 --> 00:01:04.420 align:middle line:84% He's associated with Nebraska Wesleyan University. 00:01:04.420 --> 00:01:10.390 align:middle line:84% He's published five collections of poetry since 1974. 00:01:10.390 --> 00:01:14.770 align:middle line:84% Alvin Turner as Farmer, Uncertain The Final Run 00:01:14.770 --> 00:01:23.620 align:middle line:84% To Winter, Loony, Ludi Jr. and Just Day. 00:01:23.620 --> 00:01:27.880 align:middle line:84% Leaving Home, published by the Blue Moon press. 00:01:27.880 --> 00:01:30.880 align:middle line:84% Leaving Home and other of Mr. Kloefkorn's work 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:34.000 align:middle line:84% will be available for sale at the reception 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:39.850 align:middle line:84% as will grill flowers, magazine, and special issues. 00:01:39.850 --> 00:01:42.520 align:middle line:84% By the way if you purchase leaving home tonight 00:01:42.520 --> 00:01:46.660 align:middle line:84% you'll get a bargain because there are some typos. 00:01:46.660 --> 00:01:48.010 align:middle line:90% They're going to be corrected. 00:01:48.010 --> 00:01:51.880 align:middle line:84% So Blue Moon press will be selling it at a greatly reduced 00:01:51.880 --> 00:01:52.930 align:middle line:90% price this evening. 00:01:52.930 --> 00:01:56.590 align:middle line:90% 00:01:56.590 --> 00:01:58.780 align:middle line:84% Though he's teaching in Nebraska now, 00:01:58.780 --> 00:02:03.610 align:middle line:84% William Kloefkorn is a native of Kansas. 00:02:03.610 --> 00:02:06.850 align:middle line:84% In addition to the collections he's published his work 00:02:06.850 --> 00:02:13.210 align:middle line:84% appears in such magazines as Prairie Schooner, Apple, 00:02:13.210 --> 00:02:20.080 align:middle line:84% Pebble, Poetry Now, Crazy Horse, Ark River Review. 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:23.681 align:middle line:84% It's my pleasure to introduce to you William Kloefkorn. 00:02:23.681 --> 00:02:27.048 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:27.048 --> 00:02:30.420 align:middle line:90% 00:02:30.420 --> 00:02:32.450 align:middle line:90% Thank you, Lois. 00:02:32.450 --> 00:02:34.000 align:middle line:90%