I'm Lois Shelton, the director of the Poetry Center.
I'd like to invite you to come visit us.
We just moved to our new house at 1216 North Cherry.
That's a block and a half north of Speedway.
And we've still not unpacked, but we are open,
and we hope you'll come.
When we get all settled in, it's going
to be a very comfortable space.
We mourn the loss of our corner at Highland and Speedway.
But now we have a space that has beautiful light, which
pleases me very much.
If you did not receive a copy of our schedule of events,
there's a large stack out on the refreshment table.
And I hope you will all stay and have refreshments and tell
Steve and Jonathan how wonderful they are.
Our next reading will be one week from tonight
in this auditorium.
The reader will be Nancy Mairs.
She'll read from her poetry, essays, and memoirs.
In addition to the readings advertised on our flyer,
there will be readings this term sponsored
by Among Other Things.
They had their first reading last Saturday,
and their next reading won't be until October 23rd.
They're having the readings at the Central Arts
Collective on Saturday nights.
Writers at Work will be scheduling readers,
visiting fiction and faculty fiction writers,
and student writers.
Steve Orlen's books of poetry are Sleeping on Doors, Separate
Creatures, Permission to Speak, which
was the winner of the Associated Writing Programs Series
Selection Award, and A Place at the Table.
He's in many anthologies and publishes regularly
in small magazines.
His honors include fellowships from the State Arts Commission,
the National Endowment for the Arts.
He's been a fellow at Bread Loaf and at the Karolyi Foundation
in France.
He's been teaching here at the university since 1967.
He's been here longer than I have.
And he's the director of our creative writing program--
Steve Orlen.
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