WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.750 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.750 --> 00:00:05.820 align:middle line:84% One additional reading to close the season this year of Poetry 00:00:05.820 --> 00:00:11.490 align:middle line:84% Center readings, that's next Wednesday at 8 o'clock in Kiva 00:00:11.490 --> 00:00:12.120 align:middle line:90% auditorium. 00:00:12.120 --> 00:00:15.030 align:middle line:84% There'll be a reading by contributors to Persona 00:00:15.030 --> 00:00:19.020 align:middle line:84% magazine, which I have heard is going 00:00:19.020 --> 00:00:22.170 align:middle line:84% to be an extremely interesting issue, is not out yet. 00:00:22.170 --> 00:00:26.700 align:middle line:84% But Persona if you don't know, is the literary magazine 00:00:26.700 --> 00:00:29.550 align:middle line:84% of undergraduates here at the university, 00:00:29.550 --> 00:00:31.650 align:middle line:84% it's edited by undergraduates, the artwork is 00:00:31.650 --> 00:00:33.990 align:middle line:84% done by undergraduates, the design is 00:00:33.990 --> 00:00:35.070 align:middle line:90% done by undergraduates. 00:00:35.070 --> 00:00:37.950 align:middle line:84% So that's an opportunity to see and hear 00:00:37.950 --> 00:00:41.670 align:middle line:84% some of the really terrific work that's being done here 00:00:41.670 --> 00:00:45.840 align:middle line:84% at the U. So next Wednesday, 8 o'clock in Kiva 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:49.500 align:middle line:84% auditorium in the Education Building. 00:00:49.500 --> 00:00:53.100 align:middle line:84% Tonight, we're happy to welcome the last 00:00:53.100 --> 00:00:57.060 align:middle line:84% of our out-of-town visitors for the year. 00:00:57.060 --> 00:00:59.310 align:middle line:84% Amy Hempel was originally from Chicago, 00:00:59.310 --> 00:01:03.190 align:middle line:84% has lived in California, now lives in New York. 00:01:03.190 --> 00:01:05.340 align:middle line:84% She's the author of two collections 00:01:05.340 --> 00:01:08.220 align:middle line:84% of short fiction, Reasons to Live 00:01:08.220 --> 00:01:11.040 align:middle line:84% and At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom. 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:14.730 align:middle line:84% Both of which were published by Knopf. 00:01:14.730 --> 00:01:16.470 align:middle line:84% Her stories as well have appeared 00:01:16.470 --> 00:01:20.160 align:middle line:84% in Vanity Fair, Harper's, Grand Street, Mother Jones, 00:01:20.160 --> 00:01:21.900 align:middle line:90% and many other magazines. 00:01:21.900 --> 00:01:25.890 align:middle line:84% And they've been translated quite widely particularly 00:01:25.890 --> 00:01:28.950 align:middle line:84% in Europe, in France, Italy, and Spain 00:01:28.950 --> 00:01:35.040 align:middle line:84% where apparently reasons to live was quite a sensation. 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:37.920 align:middle line:84% She's taught at NYU, her work has 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:42.120 align:middle line:84% appeared in numerous anthologies and award editions. 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:44.190 align:middle line:84% She's taught at Bread Loaf where she's 00:01:44.190 --> 00:01:47.130 align:middle line:84% worked in association with a number of our colleagues, Bob 00:01:47.130 --> 00:01:50.670 align:middle line:90% Houston and Steve Orlen. 00:01:50.670 --> 00:01:52.950 align:middle line:84% Though, I'm not accustomed to quoting 00:01:52.950 --> 00:01:55.950 align:middle line:84% from the blurbs on people's books, 00:01:55.950 --> 00:01:59.250 align:middle line:84% I'll do it tonight because there was just really 00:01:59.250 --> 00:02:03.360 align:middle line:84% a wonderful few words on the jacket 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:06.300 align:middle line:84% of At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, which 00:02:06.300 --> 00:02:11.730 align:middle line:84% say a great deal about the short pieces in that book: 00:02:11.730 --> 00:02:14.940 align:middle line:84% "Sixteen illuminations of the rogue 00:02:14.940 --> 00:02:21.210 align:middle line:84% stresses that threaten to undo the stability of modern women." 00:02:21.210 --> 00:02:23.145 align:middle line:90% Please, welcome Amy Hempel. 00:02:23.145 --> 00:02:26.454 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:26.454 --> 00:02:31.900 align:middle line:90% 00:02:31.900 --> 00:02:33.840 align:middle line:90% Thank you.