WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.600 align:middle line:84% --Auditorium, February 23, a reading 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:06.542 align:middle line:90% by visiting poet Heather McHugh. 00:00:06.542 --> 00:00:09.000 align:middle line:84% I hope you can stay tonight and have some punch and cookies 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:12.090 align:middle line:90% and meet Mr. Knott. 00:00:12.090 --> 00:00:16.020 align:middle line:84% I brought, to put on display in the hall, the lovely poster 00:00:16.020 --> 00:00:17.730 align:middle line:84% for the Tucson Poetry Festival, which 00:00:17.730 --> 00:00:20.400 align:middle line:84% has a complete schedule of their events. 00:00:20.400 --> 00:00:26.100 align:middle line:84% And we'll be mailing out our newsletter 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:29.370 align:middle line:84% the end of this week, which also has a schedule of their events. 00:00:29.370 --> 00:00:34.710 align:middle line:84% If you're not on our mailing list, 00:00:34.710 --> 00:00:36.270 align:middle line:84% the newsletters are available also 00:00:36.270 --> 00:00:37.760 align:middle line:84% from the Creative Writing faculty. 00:00:37.760 --> 00:00:39.510 align:middle line:84% And if you want to be on our mailing list, 00:00:39.510 --> 00:00:41.940 align:middle line:84% let me know, and we'll be happy to add your name. 00:00:41.940 --> 00:00:46.230 align:middle line:90% 00:00:46.230 --> 00:00:50.970 align:middle line:84% Bill Knott's here from Emerson College, Massachusetts. 00:00:50.970 --> 00:00:54.834 align:middle line:90% 00:00:54.834 --> 00:01:01.110 align:middle line:84% Bill Knott's books of poems are, Becos, Selected And Collected 00:01:01.110 --> 00:01:11.130 align:middle line:84% Poems, Rome In Rome, Love Poems to Myself, Nights of Naomi, 00:01:11.130 --> 00:01:15.120 align:middle line:84% my favorite title, Auto-Necrophilia, 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:18.000 align:middle line:90% and The Naomi Poems. 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:20.190 align:middle line:84% His work appears widely in little magazines 00:01:20.190 --> 00:01:22.440 align:middle line:90% and anthologies. 00:01:22.440 --> 00:01:24.780 align:middle line:84% His honors include two fellowships in the National 00:01:24.780 --> 00:01:27.250 align:middle line:90% Endowment for the Arts. 00:01:27.250 --> 00:01:29.940 align:middle line:84% In 1978, he was the winner of the Elliston prize 00:01:29.940 --> 00:01:31.290 align:middle line:90% at the University of Cincinnati. 00:01:31.290 --> 00:01:34.830 align:middle line:90% 00:01:34.830 --> 00:01:37.980 align:middle line:84% We had the great pleasure to hear him read a couple of years 00:01:37.980 --> 00:01:40.680 align:middle line:84% ago in the summer workshop in Washington. 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:42.900 align:middle line:84% And we have a great treat for us tonight. 00:01:42.900 --> 00:01:44.456 align:middle line:90% Bill Knott. 00:01:44.456 --> 00:01:47.907 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:01:47.907 --> 00:01:50.372 align:middle line:90% 00:01:50.372 --> 00:01:51.358 align:middle line:90% OK, thanks. 00:01:51.358 --> 00:01:58.260 align:middle line:90% 00:01:58.260 --> 00:02:02.460 align:middle line:84% Well, is this working and you can all 00:02:02.460 --> 00:02:04.722 align:middle line:90% hear me, even in the back rows? 00:02:04.722 --> 00:02:05.430 align:middle line:90% All right, great. 00:02:05.430 --> 00:02:07.080 align:middle line:90% Thanks. 00:02:07.080 --> 00:02:14.370 align:middle line:84% I'm going to break one of the unwritten rules of poetry 00:02:14.370 --> 00:02:20.760 align:middle line:84% readings and give you a handout of the poems I'm 00:02:20.760 --> 00:02:25.560 align:middle line:84% going to read so that if you want to read along on the page 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:28.500 align:middle line:90% as I read them aloud, you can. 00:02:28.500 --> 00:02:29.955 align:middle line:90% Let's see. 00:02:29.955 --> 00:02:32.490 align:middle line:84% I'll pass them over here, and I'll put some over here, 00:02:32.490 --> 00:02:34.860 align:middle line:84% if you could pass them back or something here 00:02:34.860 --> 00:02:35.940 align:middle line:90% before we get started. 00:02:35.940 --> 00:02:50.620 align:middle line:90% 00:02:50.620 --> 00:02:51.620 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:02:51.620 --> 00:02:53.120 align:middle line:90% If you could pass them back. 00:02:53.120 --> 00:03:01.603 align:middle line:90% 00:03:01.603 --> 00:03:04.890 align:middle line:84% I think I've brought about 80 copies. 00:03:04.890 --> 00:03:11.070 align:middle line:84% So I don't know how many of you there are here. 00:03:11.070 --> 00:03:14.056 align:middle line:90% If you could-- 00:03:14.056 --> 00:03:17.549 align:middle line:90% [CHATTER] 00:03:17.549 --> 00:03:37.509 align:middle line:90% 00:03:37.509 --> 00:03:41.040 align:middle line:90% They're hitting me, Bill. 00:03:41.040 --> 00:03:43.010 align:middle line:90% Well, sorry. 00:03:43.010 --> 00:03:46.475 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:03:46.475 --> 00:03:47.960 align:middle line:90% 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:51.425 align:middle line:90% [CHATTER] 00:03:51.425 --> 00:04:05.790 align:middle line:90% 00:04:05.790 --> 00:04:07.443 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:04:07.443 --> 00:04:08.610 align:middle line:90% Thank you very much, fellas. 00:04:08.610 --> 00:04:13.200 align:middle line:90% 00:04:13.200 --> 00:04:17.130 align:middle line:84% I know perhaps most of you, after the reading, 00:04:17.130 --> 00:04:24.120 align:middle line:84% will be in a mood to rip this up and probably stomp on it. 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:27.600 align:middle line:84% But if you don't want it, give it back to me 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:33.165 align:middle line:84% so I can hand it out to other poor audiences in the future. 00:04:33.165 --> 00:04:37.560 align:middle line:90% 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:41.700 align:middle line:84% OK, Well, we'll start right on page one. 00:04:41.700 --> 00:04:45.750 align:middle line:84% I'm not going to read every poem in here. 00:04:45.750 --> 00:04:48.530 align:middle line:90% But I'll read a few of them.