Our next reading will be one week from tonight.
Three Master of Fine Arts candidates
will be reading in the terrace lounge of the Student Union
at 8 o'clock.
And the readers are, Agha Shahid Ali, Linda Grabner,
and Pamela Portwood.
That's one week from tonight.
One week from tomorrow will be the first
in a series of readings to be sponsored by the Writers
at Work.
And their reader will be fiction writer Perry Glasser,
he's a former university student.
And one of the MFA students will be reading with him,
but that's--
the name is yet to be announced.
Two weeks from tonight, we'll have the last visitor
in our fall series, and that will
be novelist and non-fiction writer Frank Waters.
That's October 24.
And that reading replaces the originally scheduled reading
by Nadine Gordimer.
We hope she will be able to come next year.
We invite you to stay after the reading
and have some lemonade and cookies in the hall.
Meet Charles Wright.
Charles comes to us from Charlottesville, Virginia.
He's published seven books of poetry, The Grave of The Right
Hand, Hard Freight, Bloodlines, China Trace, The Southern
Cross, Country Music, which is selected early poems, which
was the co-winner of the 1983 American Book Award,
and his most recent book of poetry,
The Other Side of the River.
He's published two translations of the work of the Italian poet
Eugenio Montale, one of which was a winner of an PEN
Translation prize.
His honors include fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
In '77, he was awarded an Academy Institute award from
the American Academy of Institute--
I can't say it.
The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Charles Wright.
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