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Good evening.

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Welcome.

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A few announcements of upcoming
events and other notable things

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you will want to know.

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On March 27, poet Lorna
Dee Cervantes will be here

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and will be reading.

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That will be Wednesday
night, March 27, 8:00 PM.

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She'll also be conducting
an open session.

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And you can look for a notice
of that in the creative writing

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office in the Poetry Center.

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And the contest awards winner
of the annual Poetry Center

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Student Contest will be
reading here on April 3.

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Those who received awards
and honorable mentions

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will all be reading.

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And the long awaited annual
Tucson Poetry Festival IX is

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coming up on April 5 through 7.

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The theme this year
is Poetry in Jazz.

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It will feature Allen Ginsberg,
Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman,

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Joy Harjo, Cynthia Hogue, and
jazz pianist Cecil Taylor.

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There should be a poster
out for that in, I think,

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a couple of weeks.

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So be looking for that.

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We do have, for sale after
the reading tonight, copies

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of the Sonora Review 10th
anniversary issue, as well

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as some back issues.

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And we'll have copies of three
of Phillip Lopate's books,

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Being With Children,
Against Joie de Vivre,

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and Bachelorhood.

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Those are for sale
in the corridor,

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10% off, from the
ASUA bookstore.

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Phillip Lopate is the
author of seven books,

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including works of poetry,
fiction, and personal essays.

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In 1975, he published
Being With Children,

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which came out of his experience
as a poet in the schools,

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working through the
Teachers & Writers

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Collaborative in New York City.

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That book has recently
been reprinted,

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and it served as the
opening by which he became,

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as his friend Vivian
Gornick describes

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him, "one of the most
interesting and significant

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writers of the personal essay."

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His two most recent
collections are

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Against Joie de Vivre
and Bachelorhood, both

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published in 1989.

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In an open session
yesterday, Lopate

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described the personal
essay as "using the self

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to fetch the subject
and as a means

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to face the catastrophe
of personality."

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His essay, "Chekhov
for Children,"

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in which he recounts the
experience of guiding

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a group of sixth graders through
a dynamic performance of,

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not Peter Pan, but
Uncle Vanya, is

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emblematic of the lively
intelligence, nerve, and vision

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he brings to his own art.

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Please welcome Phillip Lopate.

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[APPLAUSE]

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