One week from tonight in this auditorium,
visiting poet Diane Ackerman will be reading for us,
and Writers at Work have scheduled one more reading
for this term.
On December 4th, Rod Kessler, he's a former University
student who teaches now in Salem, Massachusetts,
will be reading with MFA student David Wallace,
and I forget where that is.
I think that's in the terrace lounge in the union.
I hope you can stay after tonight's reading
and have some refreshments to meet Dr. Powell.
We have a new brochure for the Poetry Center,
a general information brochure and an invitation
to become a friend of the Poetry Center,
and I brought just a few of them with me tonight,
the bulk is still at the printers,
but pick them out on the refreshment table
if you'd like to have one.
If you are not on our mailing list
and would like to be please see me after the reading.
Dr. Powell, the list of publications
is so long that if I read all of them
you wouldn't get to hear him.
But we have a partial list on this little brochure
that we mailed out and also brought a stack of these,
so if you would like the list of his major books
those are on the refreshment table too.
Lawrence Clark Powell is a librarian, teacher, lecturer,
and chairman of the Friends of the University
of Arizona Library, as well as being
a writer of essays, history, books on books,
numerous articles for periodicals, and a novelist.
As a novelist that we've asked him
if he will appear for us tonight,
it's a great pleasure to introduce him to you.
He has one new book out from University Press, which
I would like to mention, it's called Books Are Basic:
The Essential Lawrence Clark Powell,
and it's edited by John David Marshall.
It's a collection of quotations combed
from many of his other books essays, articles, and reviews.
I've already stolen one of the quotations
to put in the next newsletter.
It's a great pleasure to introduce
to you Lawrence Clark Powell.
[APPLAUSE]
Good morning.