Thank you.
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Thanks for coming.
I hope you can all come to the reception following
the reading.
We'll be in the Union Club lounge tonight
instead of the Terrace lounge.
When you first go into the union at the Gallagher entrance,
just keep going up the steps.
And it'll be that big open area on the third floor.
It's the usual-- brownies, punch, cookies.
I still have about 10,000 of these
left if you didn't get one.
If you're not able to come to the reception,
I've put some down on the edge of the stage
if you'd like to pick up some.
And I'll have them at the reception.
Also at the reception, we have free copies
of the new undergraduate literary magazine, Persona--
a very handsome book.
The next function sponsored by the Poetry Center
will be in celebration of three new books of poetry--
Steve Orlen's Permission to Speak,
Criss Cannady's Lakes and Legacies, and Greg Pape's
Border Crossing.
And that celebration will be on Sunday afternoon,
the 24th, a week from this Sunday, at the Poetry Center.
The Poetry Center is at the corner
of Speedway and Highland.
All three poets will read.
And, of course, there will be punch and cookies.
There's a rumor going around that some people only come out
for the punch and cookies.
We would like to publish a newsletter early.
So if you have any good news about your work--
honors, acceptance for publication, special awards,
or the work of your friends-- would
you please call us or put a note in the English box
so that we can publicize it for you?
We only publish good news.
We don't want weddings and babies and things like that.
We want--
[LAUGHTER]
I've been taking a lot of flak the last few days, because I've
been getting everything wrong.
And Richard Shelton, he's afraid I'm
going to announce that he's written a book
called The Painted Desert.
[LAUGHTER]
His books from the University of Pittsburgh Press
are The Tattooed Desert, Of All the Dirty
Words, You Can't Have Everything,
and coming out in November, The Bus to Veracruz.
He will be reading partly from The Bus to Veracruz
this evening.
With smaller presses, he's published Calendar, the Baleen
Press; Chosen Places, with Best Cellar Press; The Heroes
of Our Time, Best Cellar Press; Among the Stones, Monument
Press; and also forthcoming from Monument Press, Desert Water.
His work has appeared in all of the usual poetry
magazines, small magazines, and slicks like The New Yorker.
His work is widely anthologized.
It's a great pleasure for me.
Most of you know that I have shared his life for the last 21
years.
So it's a great pleasure for me to introduce to you
this evening Richard Shelton.
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