Inside back cover of the newsletter we just put a whole
calendar of events, but for the benefit of those of you who
cannot read I'll tell you what the coming events are.
Tomorrow afternoon at 3:30, Mr. Bernstein
will speak for the Magritte series, that's
in the Magritte Cafe on Broadway at 3:30
in the afternoon, that's a free session.
That's sponsored by Chax Press.
There's two readings coming up this weekend:
Nanao Sakaki, from Japan, will give a reading
and show a videotape at 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon
at the Central Arts Collective, 250 East Congress Street.
That reading is not in the newsletter,
so if you forget the time you can call us
at the Poetry Center and we'll tell you the time
and place, Sunday at 4 o'clock.
And Sunday evening at 7:00 is the regular first Sunday
reading of Lamplight, and the readers this week
are LD Clark and Dorothy Lykes.
Dr. Clark is a novelist, he's just recently retired
at the University and Mrs. Lykes is a poet who lives in Phoenix.
There's a new series sponsored by the Spanish and Portuguese
department with funding from Southwest Center: Chicano
Writers, and the second of their readers
will be next Tuesday night, and that's Pat Mora, from El Paso,
reading in the Modern Languages 410.
We had originally scheduled a fiction reading
for this auditorium next Wednesday
night by Tama Janowitz and that's
been canceled because of illness.
And then the next in the Among Other Things
series will be on the 13th, that's a week from Saturday.
And the readers are Robert Boswell and Antonya Nelson,
you may be familiar to you Robert and Antonya-- are
both MFA alums in fiction and done beautiful work.
The Among Other Things readings are also
at the Central Arts Collective and they begin at 8 o'clock.
Our next reading is two weeks from tonight
in this auditorium: visiting poet Alice Fulton.
I hope you'll stay after the reading,
and have some lemonade and brownies.
Meet Mr Bernstein.
We have books on sale tonight and if you didn't
bring your money tonight we'll have them again
tomorrow afternoon.
We have three books and Chax Press
has done a special presentation of four poems
in a very beautiful folder.
And these are all signed well, I'm
sure Mr Bernstein didn't sign your other book if you bought,
but this is such a lovely thing I want
to be sure that you all see it.
Charles Alexander has done this in Chax Press.
And if you don't like that selection Student Union has
Mr Bernstein's book Controlling Interests for sale,
then we take cheques, but we don't take credit cards.
I hope you also saw in the newsletter
that there's a new series on television
on Sunday afternoons called Voices and Visions,
the first program last week was on Robert Frost,
and each of the 13 segments will deal with one poet.
I'm pirating video cassette recordings
if you miss it and want to see.
I'm not selling them I'm taping and you can borrow the tape.
We're happy to have Charles Bernstein with us.
He's published 14 books of poetry
since 1975, among the more recent
The Sophist and Resistances--
no, Resistance, not Resistances.
His critical essays have been collected
in a book called Content's Dream: Essays, 1975 - 1984.
With Bruce Andrews, he's edited the influential magazine
of contemporary poetics called L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E.
He's also edited two collections of poetry,
The Language Sampler, which is in Paris Review number 86,
and 43 Poets.
His work has appeared in hundreds of periodicals
in the United States, and in Europe,
and New Zealand, and Australia.
His honors include fellowships from the University
of Auckland Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation,
National Endowment For The Arts, and Simon Fraser University.
He comes to us from New York City.
Charles Bernstein.
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