Come up here and pretend like you can all hear me.
Everybody, obviously I can hear the sound everywhere.
It will be two weeks from tonight
in this auditorium John Williams novelist is reading for us.
That's September 28.
I brought some more programs and I'll
have them out on the refreshment table if you need one.
We will be having refreshments in the hall immediately
following the reading and books will be on sale.
I hope you can all stay and meet Al Young.
Al Young's books of poetry are The Blues
Don't Change which is new and selected poems.
Geography of the Near Past, The Song Turning Back Into Itself,
and Dancing.
His fifth novel Seduction By Light
is forthcoming from Delacorte press.
In addition to writing poetry and fiction he's a teacher,
editor, and film writer, comes to us
from Palo Alto, California.
It's my pleasure to introduce Al Young.
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