--we'll present Mr. Robert Downs, reading selections
from his novels in the Terrace Lounge at the Student Union.
The last poet on this year's schedule
will read in this auditorium two weeks from tonight, April 4th.
We have coming, Michael Harper.
Contest entry blanks and rules will
be available at the reception for Miss McPherson tonight.
If you'll look on the refreshment table.
The deadline for contest entries will be
April 6th, Friday, April 6th.
I'm very happy to announce that we have
$275 in prize money this year--
$100 from the Academy of American Poets,
$75 in memory of Jean Greig which
was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Eberhardt,
and an additional $100 from combined student union
activities board, the Poetry Center, and a private donor.
We're very happy to have a very charming young lady
this evening with Sandra McPherson, comes to us
from Portland, Oregon.
She studied at San Jose State.
She studied at the University of Washington.
She lives now with her daughter and her husband Poet Henry
Carlile.
Her work has appeared in many magazines such as Nation,
Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Colorado Quarterly Perspective,
and other journals.
Her first book of poems, Elegies for the Hot Season,
won for her--
the Association of American University presses award
from the National Council in the arts.
She has completed a second book, Radiation,
with the help of an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant.
Radiation will be published soon by a Viking subsidiary.
Will you welcome please Miss Sandra McPherson.
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