[SIDE CONVERSATION]
This is our last reading for the semester.
Those of you who need a poetry fix may go to ASU next Monday
night--
[LAUGHTER]
--where WS Merwin will be reading.
There will be two fine readings at Pima College.
John Anderson on November 22, Michael Hogan on December 8.
We hope you can come to the Union
following the reading tonight to meet Mr. and Mrs. Levine.
Have some cookies.
[LAUGHTER]
And books will be available for sale after the reading tonight.
We'd like to put out our second newsletter sometime the end
of this month.
So if you have any news of your own work or your friends' work,
I would appreciate it if you'd give us a note
so we can include it in our newsletter.
Philip Levine was born in Detroit,
Michigan, educated at Wayne State,
currently teaches at California State in Fresno.
His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant,
Franc O'Hara prize from Poetry Magazine,
National Institute of Arts and Letters grant,
and most recently a $5,000 award from the Lenore Marshall Prize,
which is given annually for the outstanding book of poems
published in the United States.
It's given by Saturday Review and the New Hope Foundation.
His books-- beginning with the first published--
are On the Edge, Not this Pig, Five Detroits, Pili's Wall,
Red Dust, They Feed They Lion, 1933, and most recently,
The Names of the Lost.
Very happy to introduce Mr. Philip Levine.
[APPLAUSE]
Thank you.