WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.020 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.020 --> 00:00:03.810 align:middle line:84% I'd like to remind students that we are sponsoring 00:00:03.810 --> 00:00:06.720 align:middle line:90% the annual poetry contest. 00:00:06.720 --> 00:00:09.060 align:middle line:84% You still have until mid-December 00:00:09.060 --> 00:00:11.100 align:middle line:84% to turn in your entries but be thinking 00:00:11.100 --> 00:00:12.690 align:middle line:90% about writing your poems now. 00:00:12.690 --> 00:00:17.430 align:middle line:90% 00:00:17.430 --> 00:00:21.990 align:middle line:84% The final double issue of Ironwood 00:00:21.990 --> 00:00:26.350 align:middle line:84% has just been published and it's on sale tonight, 00:00:26.350 --> 00:00:28.740 align:middle line:84% along with copies of Sonora Review 00:00:28.740 --> 00:00:30.960 align:middle line:90% and some of Miss Dahlen's books. 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:35.610 align:middle line:84% Miss Dahlen is represented in this last issue of Ironwood, 00:00:35.610 --> 00:00:39.550 align:middle line:84% so I hope you all brought your money with you. 00:00:39.550 --> 00:00:43.720 align:middle line:84% Our final reading for this term will be one week from tonight 00:00:43.720 --> 00:00:48.010 align:middle line:84% in this auditorium, a reading by XJ Kennedy. 00:00:48.010 --> 00:00:51.137 align:middle line:84% And students who are interested in entering the contest 00:00:51.137 --> 00:00:52.720 align:middle line:84% might want to know that Mr. Kennedy is 00:00:52.720 --> 00:00:54.820 align:middle line:84% going to be the judge for the contest this year. 00:00:54.820 --> 00:00:58.870 align:middle line:90% 00:00:58.870 --> 00:01:02.200 align:middle line:84% In addition to the work that Beverly Dahlen has been doing 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:04.750 align:middle line:84% for the Poetry Center this week and tonight, 00:01:04.750 --> 00:01:12.940 align:middle line:84% she is speaking tomorrow for Chax Press Magritte Sessions 00:01:12.940 --> 00:01:16.330 align:middle line:84% and her talk is called "Tautology." 00:01:16.330 --> 00:01:19.570 align:middle line:84% That will be tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 00:01:19.570 --> 00:01:24.580 align:middle line:84% at the Cafe Magritte, 254 East Congress Street. 00:01:24.580 --> 00:01:25.405 align:middle line:90% And that is free. 00:01:25.405 --> 00:01:31.590 align:middle line:90% 00:01:31.590 --> 00:01:36.960 align:middle line:84% I just learned tonight that there 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:40.950 align:middle line:84% is a reading of graduate fiction students tomorrow night 00:01:40.950 --> 00:01:44.070 align:middle line:90% at the Cafe Olé at 8 o'clock. 00:01:44.070 --> 00:01:48.240 align:middle line:84% And the readers are Susan Roberts, Sarah Streed, 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:51.390 align:middle line:90% and Pat Baliani. 00:01:51.390 --> 00:01:57.630 align:middle line:84% That is free and open to the public and begins at 8:00. 00:01:57.630 --> 00:02:01.596 align:middle line:90% Cafe Olé is right downtown on-- 00:02:01.596 --> 00:02:03.340 align:middle line:90% is it Broadway or Congress? 00:02:03.340 --> 00:02:03.940 align:middle line:90% Broadway. 00:02:03.940 --> 00:02:05.125 align:middle line:90% 121 East Broadway. 00:02:05.125 --> 00:02:09.039 align:middle line:90% 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:14.110 align:middle line:84% Beverly Dahlen has come to us tonight from the Bay Area. 00:02:14.110 --> 00:02:21.490 align:middle line:84% Her books are A Reading 1-7, published by Momo's Press, 00:02:21.490 --> 00:02:24.594 align:middle line:90% and The Egyptian Poems. 00:02:24.594 --> 00:02:30.050 align:middle line:84% And she has two chapbooks, A Letter At Easter 00:02:30.050 --> 00:02:33.990 align:middle line:90% and Out Of The Third. 00:02:33.990 --> 00:02:39.300 align:middle line:84% She was one of the founders of the feminist literary 00:02:39.300 --> 00:02:42.300 align:middle line:84% periodical HOW(ever), and served as one 00:02:42.300 --> 00:02:47.760 align:middle line:84% of its contributing editors until 1986. 00:02:47.760 --> 00:02:49.710 align:middle line:84% It's a great pleasure to introduce to you: 00:02:49.710 --> 00:02:51.330 align:middle line:90% Beverly Dahlen. 00:02:51.330 --> 00:02:53.780 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:53.780 --> 00:03:01.000 align:middle line:90%