WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.350 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.350 --> 00:00:01.967 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:00:01.967 --> 00:00:03.835 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:00:03.835 --> 00:00:08.039 align:middle line:90% 00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:09.070 align:middle line:90% Thanks for coming. 00:00:09.070 --> 00:00:11.640 align:middle line:84% I hope you can all come to the reception following 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:12.750 align:middle line:90% the reading. 00:00:12.750 --> 00:00:16.620 align:middle line:84% We'll be in the Union Club lounge tonight 00:00:16.620 --> 00:00:18.330 align:middle line:90% instead of the Terrace lounge. 00:00:18.330 --> 00:00:22.500 align:middle line:84% When you first go into the union at the Gallagher entrance, 00:00:22.500 --> 00:00:25.140 align:middle line:90% just keep going up the steps. 00:00:25.140 --> 00:00:30.638 align:middle line:84% And it'll be that big open area on the third floor. 00:00:30.638 --> 00:00:33.910 align:middle line:84% It's the usual-- brownies, punch, cookies. 00:00:33.910 --> 00:00:37.710 align:middle line:90% 00:00:37.710 --> 00:00:39.210 align:middle line:84% I still have about 10,000 of these 00:00:39.210 --> 00:00:41.850 align:middle line:90% left if you didn't get one. 00:00:41.850 --> 00:00:44.220 align:middle line:84% If you're not able to come to the reception, 00:00:44.220 --> 00:00:46.440 align:middle line:84% I've put some down on the edge of the stage 00:00:46.440 --> 00:00:48.480 align:middle line:90% if you'd like to pick up some. 00:00:48.480 --> 00:00:51.540 align:middle line:84% And I'll have them at the reception. 00:00:51.540 --> 00:00:55.170 align:middle line:84% Also at the reception, we have free copies 00:00:55.170 --> 00:00:59.190 align:middle line:84% of the new undergraduate literary magazine, Persona-- 00:00:59.190 --> 00:01:00.705 align:middle line:90% a very handsome book. 00:01:00.705 --> 00:01:05.050 align:middle line:90% 00:01:05.050 --> 00:01:08.590 align:middle line:84% The next function sponsored by the Poetry Center 00:01:08.590 --> 00:01:12.880 align:middle line:84% will be in celebration of three new books of poetry-- 00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:16.000 align:middle line:84% Steve Orlen's Permission to Speak, 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:20.200 align:middle line:84% Criss Cannady's Lakes and Legacies, and Greg Pape's 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:21.940 align:middle line:90% Border Crossing. 00:01:21.940 --> 00:01:25.000 align:middle line:84% And that celebration will be on Sunday afternoon, 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:29.710 align:middle line:84% the 24th, a week from this Sunday, at the Poetry Center. 00:01:29.710 --> 00:01:31.240 align:middle line:84% The Poetry Center is at the corner 00:01:31.240 --> 00:01:34.540 align:middle line:90% of Speedway and Highland. 00:01:34.540 --> 00:01:36.670 align:middle line:90% All three poets will read. 00:01:36.670 --> 00:01:40.570 align:middle line:84% And, of course, there will be punch and cookies. 00:01:40.570 --> 00:01:44.347 align:middle line:84% There's a rumor going around that some people only come out 00:01:44.347 --> 00:01:45.430 align:middle line:90% for the punch and cookies. 00:01:45.430 --> 00:01:49.300 align:middle line:90% 00:01:49.300 --> 00:01:52.240 align:middle line:84% We would like to publish a newsletter early. 00:01:52.240 --> 00:01:56.830 align:middle line:84% So if you have any good news about your work-- 00:01:56.830 --> 00:02:01.852 align:middle line:84% honors, acceptance for publication, special awards, 00:02:01.852 --> 00:02:03.310 align:middle line:84% or the work of your friends-- would 00:02:03.310 --> 00:02:07.090 align:middle line:84% you please call us or put a note in the English box 00:02:07.090 --> 00:02:10.389 align:middle line:84% so that we can publicize it for you? 00:02:10.389 --> 00:02:12.040 align:middle line:90% We only publish good news. 00:02:12.040 --> 00:02:16.190 align:middle line:90% 00:02:16.190 --> 00:02:18.590 align:middle line:84% We don't want weddings and babies and things like that. 00:02:18.590 --> 00:02:19.090 align:middle line:90% We want-- 00:02:19.090 --> 00:02:21.034 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:21.034 --> 00:02:31.250 align:middle line:90% 00:02:31.250 --> 00:02:34.130 align:middle line:84% I've been taking a lot of flak the last few days, because I've 00:02:34.130 --> 00:02:37.670 align:middle line:90% been getting everything wrong. 00:02:37.670 --> 00:02:41.450 align:middle line:84% And Richard Shelton, he's afraid I'm 00:02:41.450 --> 00:02:43.247 align:middle line:84% going to announce that he's written a book 00:02:43.247 --> 00:02:44.330 align:middle line:90% called The Painted Desert. 00:02:44.330 --> 00:02:46.234 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:46.234 --> 00:02:51.798 align:middle line:90% 00:02:51.798 --> 00:02:53.840 align:middle line:84% His books from the University of Pittsburgh Press 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:59.150 align:middle line:84% are The Tattooed Desert, Of All the Dirty 00:02:59.150 --> 00:03:02.960 align:middle line:84% Words, You Can't Have Everything, 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:06.650 align:middle line:84% and coming out in November, The Bus to Veracruz. 00:03:06.650 --> 00:03:09.440 align:middle line:84% He will be reading partly from The Bus to Veracruz 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:12.260 align:middle line:90% this evening. 00:03:12.260 --> 00:03:16.310 align:middle line:84% With smaller presses, he's published Calendar, the Baleen 00:03:16.310 --> 00:03:22.790 align:middle line:84% Press; Chosen Places, with Best Cellar Press; The Heroes 00:03:22.790 --> 00:03:28.040 align:middle line:84% of Our Time, Best Cellar Press; Among the Stones, Monument 00:03:28.040 --> 00:03:34.940 align:middle line:84% Press; and also forthcoming from Monument Press, Desert Water. 00:03:34.940 --> 00:03:38.000 align:middle line:84% His work has appeared in all of the usual poetry 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:42.830 align:middle line:84% magazines, small magazines, and slicks like The New Yorker. 00:03:42.830 --> 00:03:46.430 align:middle line:90% His work is widely anthologized. 00:03:46.430 --> 00:03:48.050 align:middle line:90% It's a great pleasure for me. 00:03:48.050 --> 00:03:52.070 align:middle line:84% Most of you know that I have shared his life for the last 21 00:03:52.070 --> 00:03:54.080 align:middle line:90% years. 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:56.840 align:middle line:84% So it's a great pleasure for me to introduce to you 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:58.370 align:middle line:90% this evening Richard Shelton. 00:03:58.370 --> 00:04:00.820 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:04:00.820 --> 00:04:16.000 align:middle line:90%