I'd like to make a few announcements here
in the middle before we hear Sandra Alcosser's work.
We do have some very beautiful broadsides
that are on display out in the hall that
were made by Brighton Press.
One of them, I think, is of Sandra's work,
and some other-- two of her work.
Very beautiful, very expensive, so
feast your eyes, that's probably all you'll want to do.
Also there are a number of readings
that I'd like you to know about coming up this week.
Tomorrow night at the Shane House, at 8 o'clock,
Hugh Steinberg is reading with Melanie Weiss,
that's 218 South Fourth Avenue.
Friday night down at the Tucson Museum of Art, own Elizabeth
Evans and Tenney Nathanson will be reading in the Chax Press
Series, Here and Now.
And next Wednesday, poet Judith Barrington
will be reading here.
I'd like to acknowledge some of the people who
helped sponsor this competition, and brought Pete and Sandra
to us, and also are bringing Elizabeth Evans and John
Sullivan up to Montana in this exchange program.
We got help from the Arizona Commission
on the Arts, the Montana Commission
on the Arts, the Western States Arts Federation,
and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest fund, all of whom
were interested in more exchanges
state to state, so that we'd get to learn more
about the work of others in our region that we didn't know.
So we're thankful to all of them for helping.
Our second reader tonight is Sandra Alcosser.
She makes her home, some of the time,
in the Bitterroot Mountains in Montana.
She has been directing the creative writing program
at San Diego State University.
And she teaches there poetry, fiction, feminist poetics,
and nature writing.
Her book, A Fish to Feed All Hunger
was published by the University of Virginia Press in 1986.
It's out of print, but I think we have a pamphlet out there
if you'd like to order it.
It's being reissued by Ahsahta Press,
and it should be out quite shortly.
She's won many awards, published in many important places.
Among her awards, two NEA fellowships, a Bread Loaf
Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize.
I love about her work that she brings a great deal of passion
along with a scientist's eyes, and I
don't mean a cold, analytical eye,
I mean and eye for the fine and beautiful detail
of the natural world.
Please welcome Sandra Alcosser.
[APPLAUSE]