WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.620 align:middle line:90%


00:00:04.620 --> 00:00:08.400 align:middle line:84%
Our next reading will be
one week from tonight.

00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:11.040 align:middle line:84%
It's graduate students
reading in the terrace lounge

00:00:11.040 --> 00:00:13.920 align:middle line:90%
of the Student Union at 8:30.

00:00:13.920 --> 00:00:18.000 align:middle line:84%
And the readers will be Nelson
Barre, Eileen [INAUDIBLE]

00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:22.420 align:middle line:84%
Reyes, Gail Eric,
and Jim Trafillio.

00:00:22.420 --> 00:00:23.550 align:middle line:90%
That's September 29.

00:00:23.550 --> 00:00:26.940 align:middle line:90%


00:00:26.940 --> 00:00:31.750 align:middle line:84%
University's undergraduate
magazine, Persona,

00:00:31.750 --> 00:00:34.300 align:middle line:90%
is looking for submissions--

00:00:34.300 --> 00:00:38.590 align:middle line:84%
short fiction, poetry,
graphics, photography.

00:00:38.590 --> 00:00:41.110 align:middle line:90%
The usual rules apply.

00:00:41.110 --> 00:00:45.880 align:middle line:84%
Material should be
typed, double-spaced,

00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:49.630 align:middle line:84%
and should have a self-addressed
stamped envelope attached.

00:00:49.630 --> 00:00:52.310 align:middle line:84%
Persona has a mailbox in
the English department

00:00:52.310 --> 00:00:55.330 align:middle line:90%
you can leave material in.

00:00:55.330 --> 00:00:57.730 align:middle line:84%
And it's getting to be
about that time of year

00:00:57.730 --> 00:01:03.095 align:middle line:84%
I would like to start making
up the first newsletter.

00:01:03.095 --> 00:01:04.720 align:middle line:84%
So if you have any
good news, would you

00:01:04.720 --> 00:01:06.850 align:middle line:90%
please pass it on to me.

00:01:06.850 --> 00:01:09.253 align:middle line:84%
Our newsletter publishes
only good news.

00:01:09.253 --> 00:01:11.518 align:middle line:90%
[LAUGHTER]

00:01:11.518 --> 00:01:12.358 align:middle line:90%


00:01:12.358 --> 00:01:14.650 align:middle line:84%
I hope you can come over to
the Poetry Center following

00:01:14.650 --> 00:01:15.400 align:middle line:90%
tonight's reading.

00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:18.852 align:middle line:84%
We have some punch and
cookies and meet Peter Wild.

00:01:18.852 --> 00:01:20.560 align:middle line:84%
If you haven't been
to the Poetry Center,

00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:23.980 align:middle line:84%
we're two blocks to the north
at the corner of Speedway

00:01:23.980 --> 00:01:25.930 align:middle line:90%
and Highland.

00:01:25.930 --> 00:01:28.930 align:middle line:84%
And we'll be on the South
Lawn beside the guest house.

00:01:28.930 --> 00:01:31.407 align:middle line:90%


00:01:31.407 --> 00:01:33.240 align:middle line:84%
It's always a pleasure
to introduce a friend

00:01:33.240 --> 00:01:35.570 align:middle line:90%
and colleague.

00:01:35.570 --> 00:01:37.740 align:middle line:84%
Peter Wild is one of the
most widely published poets

00:01:37.740 --> 00:01:40.080 align:middle line:90%
in the United States.

00:01:40.080 --> 00:01:45.660 align:middle line:84%
Some of his books are New and
Selected Poems and Wilderness,

00:01:45.660 --> 00:01:50.460 align:middle line:84%
both from New Rivers Press;
The Cloning, and Chihuahua,

00:01:50.460 --> 00:01:52.230 align:middle line:90%
and Doubleday.

00:01:52.230 --> 00:01:56.280 align:middle line:84%
His most recent book is Bitter
Roots from Blue Moon Press.

00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:58.890 align:middle line:84%
And copies of Bitter Roots
will be available for sale

00:01:58.890 --> 00:02:02.400 align:middle line:90%
at the reception.

00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:06.300 align:middle line:84%
In addition to
being a poet, Peter

00:02:06.300 --> 00:02:09.660 align:middle line:84%
has been a
journalist, backpacker

00:02:09.660 --> 00:02:12.480 align:middle line:90%
and an avid conservationist.

00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:16.620 align:middle line:84%
A contributing editor
to High Country News.

00:02:16.620 --> 00:02:19.650 align:middle line:84%
He has a book out on Pioneer
Conservationist on Western

00:02:19.650 --> 00:02:23.940 align:middle line:84%
America, to soon to be followed
by Pioneer Conservationist

00:02:23.940 --> 00:02:29.370 align:middle line:84%
of Early America and Pioneer
Conservationist of Eastern

00:02:29.370 --> 00:02:30.520 align:middle line:90%
America.

00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:32.370 align:middle line:84%
I'm very happy to
introduce Peter Wild.

00:02:32.370 --> 00:02:35.420 align:middle line:90%
[APPLAUSE]

00:02:35.420 --> 00:02:43.000 align:middle line:90%