Next reading will be two weeks from tonight.
It's a combination of prose and poetry
by graduate students in the MFA program.
The readers will be Roy Buehrle, Linda Leshinski,
reading from their fiction, Stephanie Hallgren and Victor
Trelawny, reading from their poetry.
Our final program for this semester
will be four weeks from tonight, December 1,
and the reader will be William Stafford.
I hope you can come over to the Union
and meet Primus St. John following the reading tonight
and have some punch and cookies.
We'll be in the Terrace Lounge.
Primus St. John was born and educated in New York City.
He's currently on the English department faculty
at Portland State University.
He served as poet-in-residence for the Tacoma Public Schools.
He is the recipient of a Discovery Award
and a creative writing fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Arts.
His first collection was published this year
by the Copper Canyon Press.
It is called Skins on the Earth.
His work has appeared in all of the leading magazines.
He goes from here to Salt Lake City
for a week's intensive work with poetry in the schools.
It's been a pleasure to observe him
with classes and individual students this week.
And I know that you're going to enjoy very much hearing
him read tonight.
Mr. Primus St. John.
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