Bet the punch and cookies are out in the hall tonight.
And I hope you can all stay for refreshments.
Can you hear me OK in the back?
OK.
Our next reading will be two weeks from tonight
in this auditorium.
That's February 9.
And the reader will be visiting poet Gerald Stern.
Before our next reading, there will be a fiction reading
at the Mosaic Cafe.
Mosaic Cafe is at Silver Bell and Speedway.
That's Sunday, February 6 at 7:30 PM.
And the two fiction readers will be LaVerne Harrell Clark
and Byrd Baylor.
If you did not get a flyer announcing
the readings for this semester, I brought a stack with me.
And I'll have them outside after the reading
on the refreshment table.
We'd like to put together a newsletter early this semester.
So if you have any news of publications, honors,
or awards, will you please give it to me
by Friday of this week?
You can put a note in the Poetry Center mailbox
or send a note to me.
I'd rather you wouldn't call because we might
get the information incorrect.
But it's OK, we will take it.
Linda Pastan comes to us from Potomac, Maryland.
She's published five collections of poetry
and two chapbooks Her most recent
is her new and selected poems called PM/AM.
Her honors include fellowship from the National Endowment
for the Arts, fellowship from the Maryland Arts Council,
The Dylan Thomas Poetry Award.
She's widely published in the lit magazines.
She has for several years been on the faculty of the Bread
Loaf Writers' Conference and also is currently teaching
at the American University.
I'm very happy to welcome Linda Pastan.
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