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I have a few thousand announcements.
If you're one of the few people who did not
receive a copy of the semester schedule in the mail,
there's a stack of them beside me on the edge of the stage
and another stack outside on the refreshment table.
And I hope you will stay and have some punch and cookies.
We didn't sample the brownies, but I'm sure they're good.
I wonder what would happen if we didn't-- if we had a poetry
reading that didn't have brownies.
If you're not on our mailing list
and would like to receive the announcements of the readings
and the quarterly newsletter, I also
brought a little stack of 3 by 5 cards.
If you give me your address, we'll
be happy to add you to our mailing list.
We hope to be sending out a newsletter
no later than the second week in October,
hopefully earlier than that.
In addition to tonight's reading,
Joy Harjo will be meeting with teachers in Tucson Unified
School District, tomorrow afternoon at 3:30, at Rincon
High School and with any and all interested writers,
or listeners, or readers at the Wilmot Library,
at 7 o'clock tomorrow night.
I don't expect you to remember that so I also
brought a stack of those announcements, which is out
on the refreshment table.
Our next reader will be a week from tonight
in this auditorium, Lucille Clifton.
I mentioned our newsletter.
We print only good news.
We print a news of publications, forthcoming publications,
honors and awards, notices of readings in town, publication
opportunities, whatever information we
can collect which we think and hope
might be of interest to you.
So if you have some news, please give it to me tonight
or by the end of this week.
And if you know of some event that's
being sponsored by another agency in town,
we would like to put it in the newsletter
so that all the students will know about it.
We mail to about 900 people in addition
to the campus distribution.
One publication opportunity that I was told about today
was the 1988 calendar, which will be put out
by Mazagine, which is the literary publication of Pima
Community College.
And I'll be putting this poster up
outside the deadline for submissions
to that as October 22.
I'm sure most of you know about Sonora
Review, the beautiful quarterly magazine--
biannual magazine put out by the university MFA students.
And copies of the most recent issues
are on sale out in the lobby tonight.
This reading is made possible by a grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Arizona Commission.
And we're very, very happy to have their support this year.
Joy Harjo has published three collections of poetry--
The Last Song, What Moon Drove Me to This?,
and She Had Some Horses.
Her work has appeared in many anthologies,
including Native American Literature, 20th Century Native
American Writers, Writers of the Southwest.
The Watershed Foundation has released a tape recording
of her reading.
Her honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment
for the Arts.
She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as a member of the Creek tribe.
She's currently teaching at the University of Colorado
in Boulder.
She's on the board of directors for Native American Public
Broadcasting Consortium and is the poetry editor for High
Plains Literary Review.
I had the pleasure of hearing her
speak on a panel sponsored by the public library
a couple of years ago and enjoyed so much hearing her.
And students who heard her this summer, when she was here
for the seminar, had been so excited in coming by every day,
saying, when's she going to read?
When's she going to get here?
So we know we have a great treat tonight.
Joy Harjo.
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Thank you.
It's good to see everyone.
And I want to thank the Poetry Center for bringing me here.
I've been treated like royalty.
And it's appreciated.