Our guest this evening is Mr. Robert Downs
who'll be reading selections from his novels.
There'll be a reception after the reading,
you're all invited to stay in and meet Mr. Downs.
Poetry Center asked me to announce a correction
to the story printed by the Wildcat
on the poetry contest sponsored by the Academy
of American Poets.
This statement should read, "The entries should not
exceed 100 lines, whether one poem or series of poems,"
rather than 100 words, as the Wildcat story had it.
The deadline on the contest is April the sixth.
There are four entry forms and information
available in the Poetry Center office
and in the English department office.
The next reading in the series sponsored by the Poetry Center
is Wednesday, April the 4th.
When Michael Harper will read him
his poetry at the Modern Language auditorium.
Mr. Robert Downs, who will be joining
the faculty of the creative writing program next fall,
was educated at Harvard.
And now at the Harvard University
writers workshop where he received an MFA
in creative writing.
He has worked as a writer for a Life magazine in New York.
He has touted Phillips Exeter Academy at Hunter College
and at Colby College in New Hampshire.
His first novel, Going Gently, was published last week.
And his next novel will be published sometime in 1974.
It gives me a good deal of pleasure
to introduce Mr. Robert Downs.
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