Our next reading will be two weeks from tonight
in this auditorium and that will be a reading
by a new member of the creative writing faculty, short story
writer Elizabeth Evans.
That's October 14th.
And again, I brought a stack of these announcements, which
we'll have out in the refreshment table
if you didn't receive one.
We've moved the refreshment table to the breezeway
because it's a beautiful night.
So I hope you'll stay and have some punch and cookies
after the reading.
An organization called Walk in Peace
is looking for written material on the theme of compassion.
This is a Tucson ecumenical council
witness for peace organization.
I brought a stack of fliers that gives information
about the organization and their plans.
The fliers will also be out on the refreshment table.
We finally finished putting together
the first issue of the newsletter
and we'll take it to the printers tomorrow.
You're welcome to start giving me new material if you like.
I may say rude things to you, but.
We're very fortunate to have Jack Gilbert with us.
Tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Poetry Center
he'll be meeting with all interested students
and individuals just to chat in general.
Poetry Center is at the corner of Speedway and Highland.
[MICROPHONE FEEDBACK]
What's happening, Bill?
[MICROPHONE FEEDBACK]
[LAUGH]
I'm leaving.
Jack Gilbert's books of poetry are Kochan, Monolithos,
which is Poems 1962 and 1982, and Views
of Jeopardy, which was the 1962 Yale Younger award winner.
His work appears in all the usual better periodicals
such as American Poetry Review and Ironwood and New Yorker
Poetry.
His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Borestone Poetry
Award, he's twice been nominated for the Pulitzer.
He served as a lecturer for the State Department
in Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, and Scandinavia,
and he's also spoken for the Voice of America.
He's taught at several universities, which
I won't name, lived in abroad for many years,
especially in Italy and Japan and on the Greek isle of Paros.
He presently resides in San Francisco.
Would you please welcome Jack Gilbert?
[APPLAUSE]