I hope you can stay for the reception.
Following reading, we'll be right out in the hall.
And on the reception table--
I thought about not announcing this at all--
we'll have some of the contest rules.
Tomorrow's the last day for students
to enter the poetry contest.
So here's the entry form and the rules.
I thought about not announcing it,
because everybody waits till the last day to turn them in.
Also, we have flyers from the Tucson Poetry
Festival, which will take place the last weekend of this month.
And there will be a stack of those on the table.
It has the full schedule of the readings.
Our next reading will be April the 8th.
And the reader is Tillie Olsen.
That reading is co-sponsored with women's studies.
It's part of the conference on midlife crisis.
And that will begin at 7:30.
[LAUGHTER]
I'm not going to look at you.
[LAUGHTER]
That meeting will begin at 7:30 in the Harville Auditorium.
That's April 8.
We had announced in our last newsletter
that we were adding an additional fiction
reading of John Williams.
And that reading has been canceled.
So the Poetry Center events for the rest of the year
will be the Olsen reading on the 8th, Persona reading
on the 13th, and the contest awards
reading on the 20th of April.
It's my pleasure to welcome Stephen Dobyns to our campus.
He's published four books of poetry--
Concurring Beast, which was the winner of the 1971 Lamont
Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, Griffon, Heat
Death, and The Balthus Poems--
and four novels, most recently, Saratoga Swimmer.
I'd like you to welcome, please, Stephen Dobyns.
[APPLAUSE]