I hope you can stay after the reading
tonight and talk to Li-Young Lee and meet his wife Donna,
have some brownies and punch with us.
Next Wednesday night we have a very special reading planned.
Two members of the creative writing faculty
will be reading, Vivian Gornick in nonfiction
and Mary Elsie Robertson in fiction.
They're both wonderful writers and wonderful readers.
Li-Young Lee was a student here 10 years ago
and we like to claim him although he
finished his degree at another school that I won't mention.
Not Iowa.
Li-Young has one book of poetry out, Rose with BOA editions.
And his work is widely published in little magazines.
He's been the recipient of grants
from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim
Foundation.
He lives with his family now in Chicago.
It's a great pleasure to have our friend back, Li-Young Lee.