Our next reading will be one week from tonight
in this auditorium, that's October 28.
And the reader will be Lisel Mueller.
It's a great pleasure to introduce
Michael Burkard to you tonight, and I
hope that you can come to the Poetry Center following
the reading to meet him.
If it's nice, we'll be outside on the South lawn.
And if it starts to rain at all, we'll
be inside the Poetry Center.
That's at the corner of Speedway and Highland,
two blocks directly North of here.
Michael Burkard comes to us from Massachusetts.
His first two collections of poetry are, In a White Light
from L'Epervier Press, and None, River from Ironwood Press.
In just a few weeks, his new book, Ruby for Grief
will be available from the University of Pittsburgh Press.
He's recently been a writing fellow at the Provincetown,
Massachusetts Writing Center.
He's taught at the University of Iowa,
at St Lawrence University, Kirkland College.
His work appeared in all the usual little magazines,
which I won't list.
We're very happy to have him here.
Michael Burkard.
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