Poetry Center will be sponsoring two more poetry
readings for this year.
One week from tonight, visiting poet Henry Carlile in this room
at 8 o'clock, and two weeks from tonight,
we will honor the students whose work
is going to appear in Persona, the undergraduate literary
magazine.
That will be April 18 in the terrace lounge of the Student
Union.
And one more reading has been scheduled
for Pima College for the year.
Jim Simmerman will be reading on the West Campus Student Center
mezzanine on Thursday, April 19.
I hope you can stay after the reading
and have some refreshments and meet Ms. Levertov.
This is Denise Levertov's fourth visit to Tucson,
but she hasn't been here for over 10 years.
Far, far too long.
We mustn't wait this long before she comes again.
Denise Levertov has published 15 volumes of poetry, including
The Double Image, The Jacob's Ladder,
Relearning the Alphabet, O Taste and See, The Sorrow Dance,
To Stay Alive, Footprints, Life in the Forest, Collected
Earlier Poems, Candles in Babylon,
and most recently, A Wanderer's Daysong.
Just two books of prose, The Poet in the World and Light
Up the Cave, and one book of translations
from the French poet Guillevic.
She's been teaching this last quarter at Stanford,
and is soon to return to her home in Boston,
and it's very fine to have her here.
Denise Levertov.
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