I hope you'll stay after the reading
tonight and have some refreshments
and meet Jon and Buzz if you don't already know them.
We also have some books for sale tonight
and Jon has brought some tapes that he's
going to tell you about.
And Sonora Review is selling their most recent issue
plus back issues.
And some of the back issues feature
the work of Jon Anderson and Buzz Poverman.
There are two readings next week.
Wednesday night, our visiting poet David Kirby
who's coming from Tallahassee, Florida, and Thursday night
he's reading sponsored by the Faculty of Humanities.
And the reader will be poet and scholar Houston Baker who's
the director of the Center for the Study of Black Literature
and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Baker will be reading on Thursday night and lecturing
on Friday afternoon.
And there are a few copies of this flyer
advertising his reading out on the refreshment table.
And also more copies of our flyer
advertises the rest of the semester.
And also I never send anyone away empty handed.
Some flyers on the Southwest Poetry Festival
which we are co-sponsoring with the Academy of American Poets
and Arizona State University.
And that's November 1st and 2nd, November 1st here in Tucson,
November 2nd at ASU.
C.E. Poverman whom we call Buzz has published three novels,
Susan, Solomon's Daughter, and most recently
from Scribner's My Father in Dreams.
He has a book of stories and novellas forthcoming this year
called [? 'Nam. ?] His collection of short fiction,
The Black Velvet Girl, was the winner of the Iowa School
of Letters Award.
His honors include a fellowship at the Karolyi Foundation
in France, and fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Arts.
And it's a great pleasure to introduce Buzz Poverman.
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