I'm sure you know from long experience
it is our custom to start with several thousand announcements.
I hope you'll be able to come to the Student Union immediately
following the reading.
The Terrace lounge upstairs in the west end,
have some punch and cookies, and meet Mr. Poverman.
And at the Union, I'll have a couple
of thousand of the bookmarks in case you didn't get one.
And I have a couple thousand of our newsletter, which
is for the creative writing students, and friends,
and family, and all relatives, hometown newspapers,
and things like that.
We will have books available for sale tonight at the Union, too.
You might even be able to convince Mr. Poverman to give
you his autograph.
Our next reading will be next Thursday.
Our first visiting poet is Kathleen Fraser
from San Francisco.
She will be reading in this auditorium at 8:30.
I hope you have marked the next eight
Thursdays in your calendar because they're
running every week, and they're all on Thursdays,
except the extra one on Friday in early November.
Grilled Flowers press to put out magazines
and chap books has been awarded up CCLM grant.
And in order to raise the necessary matching funds,
they're having a yard sale this Saturday.
They would appreciate your coming
you may have seen their posters all over town.
We'll appreciate your donations if you have some.
If you need any information, you can
call us at the Poetry Center tomorrow
or call Frank Graziano.
Buzz Poverman comes to us to join our faculty this year
teaching fiction classes, he's very widely traveled and widely
published, his first two major books came out,
most recently, his novel Susan from Viking press,
a collection of stories called The black Velvet Girl,
which was the winner of the Iowa short fiction
contest for last year.
You have a treat in store.
I know you'd rather hear Buzz than hear me.
CE Poverman.