WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.580 align:middle line:90% 00:00:03.580 --> 00:00:07.750 align:middle line:84% Next week, our reading will be on Thursday instead 00:00:07.750 --> 00:00:11.770 align:middle line:84% of Wednesday, and it will be in the Harvill Auditorium, 00:00:11.770 --> 00:00:13.012 align:middle line:90% instead of here. 00:00:13.012 --> 00:00:14.160 align:middle line:90% Harvill? 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:17.860 align:middle line:84% Harvill, that's on 2nd and Olive. 00:00:17.860 --> 00:00:20.560 align:middle line:90% 00:00:20.560 --> 00:00:24.460 align:middle line:84% And I'm serious when I say, bring somebody with you. 00:00:24.460 --> 00:00:27.300 align:middle line:90% It's a creepy place to find. 00:00:27.300 --> 00:00:29.110 align:middle line:84% Don't walk over there by yourself. 00:00:29.110 --> 00:00:31.680 align:middle line:90% 00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:36.490 align:middle line:84% It's nice after you get in there, but it's weird. 00:00:36.490 --> 00:00:39.660 align:middle line:84% And the poet will be Kenneth Koch, yeah. 00:00:39.660 --> 00:00:44.250 align:middle line:90% 00:00:44.250 --> 00:00:47.580 align:middle line:84% If you are not on our mailing list and would like to be, 00:00:47.580 --> 00:00:51.120 align:middle line:84% please see me or Ila Abernathy after the reading 00:00:51.120 --> 00:00:52.320 align:middle line:90% and give us your address. 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:55.380 align:middle line:84% We'd like to send you the announcements. 00:00:55.380 --> 00:00:57.180 align:middle line:84% We're finally taking the first newsletter 00:00:57.180 --> 00:01:00.420 align:middle line:84% to the printing bureau tomorrow, so it will 00:01:00.420 --> 00:01:03.480 align:middle line:90% be out in about two weeks or-- 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:05.650 align:middle line:90% between 10 days and two weeks. 00:01:05.650 --> 00:01:06.900 align:middle line:90% That will be our next mailing. 00:01:06.900 --> 00:01:12.460 align:middle line:90% 00:01:12.460 --> 00:01:17.020 align:middle line:84% The Old Mosaic Reading Series has been 00:01:17.020 --> 00:01:19.810 align:middle line:90% renamed the Lamplighter Series. 00:01:19.810 --> 00:01:21.370 align:middle line:90% It has a new coordinator. 00:01:21.370 --> 00:01:23.080 align:middle line:90% Chris Stern is the coordinator. 00:01:23.080 --> 00:01:24.730 align:middle line:84% Those are the readings that are held 00:01:24.730 --> 00:01:28.870 align:middle line:84% at Bentley's, on the first Sunday of each month. 00:01:28.870 --> 00:01:31.450 align:middle line:84% So there will be a reading at Bentley's this Sunday, 00:01:31.450 --> 00:01:32.530 align:middle line:90% and please forgive me. 00:01:32.530 --> 00:01:36.310 align:middle line:84% I forgot to bring the names of the readers. 00:01:36.310 --> 00:01:39.920 align:middle line:84% That will be at 7 o'clock on Sunday, at Bentley's. 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:43.705 align:middle line:84% Bentley's is on Speedway, between Cherry and Campbell. 00:01:43.705 --> 00:01:49.540 align:middle line:90% 00:01:49.540 --> 00:01:52.960 align:middle line:84% I hope you'll stay and have some punch and cookies, 00:01:52.960 --> 00:01:54.850 align:middle line:84% meet Tenney if you haven't already met him. 00:01:54.850 --> 00:01:57.488 align:middle line:90% 00:01:57.488 --> 00:01:59.780 align:middle line:84% As most of you know, he's a professor in the literature 00:01:59.780 --> 00:02:01.970 align:middle line:84% department, here at the university, 00:02:01.970 --> 00:02:06.320 align:middle line:84% and we're very happy to have him with us. 00:02:06.320 --> 00:02:10.880 align:middle line:84% His poems have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Social 00:02:10.880 --> 00:02:19.410 align:middle line:84% Text, Caterpillar, Painted Bride Quarterly, Tamarisk. 00:02:19.410 --> 00:02:25.290 align:middle line:84% He has published one volume of poems, The Book of Death. 00:02:25.290 --> 00:02:27.420 align:middle line:84% He's teaching, currently, American poetry 00:02:27.420 --> 00:02:29.940 align:middle line:84% and American literature in the English department, 00:02:29.940 --> 00:02:32.010 align:middle line:84% and he's published critical articles 00:02:32.010 --> 00:02:35.100 align:middle line:84% on Walt Whitman and John Ashbery. 00:02:35.100 --> 00:02:38.393 align:middle line:84% It's a real pleasure to welcome Tenney Nathanson for a reading. 00:02:38.393 --> 00:02:39.812 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:39.812 --> 00:02:44.550 align:middle line:90% 00:02:44.550 --> 00:02:45.330 align:middle line:90% Thank you, Lois. 00:02:45.330 --> 00:02:46.641 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:46.641 --> 00:02:48.380 align:middle line:90% 00:02:48.380 --> 00:02:50.880 align:middle line:84% I don't know how many of you saw an article about a week ago 00:02:50.880 --> 00:02:52.080 align:middle line:90% in the Arizona Daily Star. 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:54.840 align:middle line:84% It turns out that Wendy's is marketing a new burger, 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:58.290 align:middle line:84% and they spent something like $5 or $6 million market 00:02:58.290 --> 00:03:00.090 align:middle line:84% testing the order of the condiments 00:03:00.090 --> 00:03:01.375 align:middle line:90% to find out which was ideal. 00:03:01.375 --> 00:03:03.000 align:middle line:84% It turned out that the particular order 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:05.190 align:middle line:84% you put in the pickle and the tomato, and so on, 00:03:05.190 --> 00:03:07.410 align:middle line:84% made an absolutely crucial difference as to how 00:03:07.410 --> 00:03:08.920 align:middle line:90% people evaluated the burgers. 00:03:08.920 --> 00:03:10.920 align:middle line:84% It also turned out, though, that what turned out 00:03:10.920 --> 00:03:13.320 align:middle line:84% to be the right order was identical to the one 00:03:13.320 --> 00:03:16.230 align:middle line:84% already in use, which the original owner of Wendy's had 00:03:16.230 --> 00:03:18.450 align:middle line:84% intuited about 15 or 20 years ago. 00:03:18.450 --> 00:03:21.630 align:middle line:84% The point of that story is that I tend to write long poems. 00:03:21.630 --> 00:03:23.670 align:middle line:84% I know they can be taxing to listen to, 00:03:23.670 --> 00:03:26.160 align:middle line:84% so I've tried to intersperse the relatively shorter ones 00:03:26.160 --> 00:03:27.480 align:middle line:90% among the longer ones. 00:03:27.480 --> 00:03:29.640 align:middle line:84% And I put the whopper in the middle. 00:03:29.640 --> 00:03:34.130 align:middle line:84% And I'll read for about 40 minutes, all right?