Our next reading will be one week from tonight
in this auditorium, and the reader
will be LD Clark of our University faculty,
reading from his fiction.
There was a notice left up here for me,
and I'm a little confused of what it is.
It's a mixed-media show, it's called the Roof Project.
And the note says, people who wish to participate
must send a written proposal by November 6.
Contact room 104 in the art building.
[LAUGHTER]
Tell me if it's a man or woman.
Contact room 104 in the art building for information.
We have the first issue of our newsletter for this term.
And I brought a few of them over with me tonight,
and we'll have them out on the refreshment table.
And you can start giving me news for the next newsletter.
As soon as I get enough, I'll put another one out.
One of the items in the newsletter
is an announcement of the two readings
that will be sponsored this semester by Writers at Work.
And those readings are first, Tuesday, November 9.
And the readers will be Kit Mcllroy of the MFA program
and Robert Hemenway of the Creative Writing faculty.
And their second reading will be Tuesday, December 7.
And the readers that night will be
Robert Boswell of the MFA program
and Francine Prose of the Creative Writing faculty.
We will have our reception in the hall tonight.
I think it's just a little too chilly to be in the breezeway.
So please stay and have some punch and cookies,
and meet Jorie Graham.
It's a great pleasure to have you with us.
She's currently a fellow of the Bunting Institute
at Radcliffe college in Cambridge.
She regularly teaches at University
at Arcata, California.
Her work has appeared widely in little magazines,
very frequently in the American Poetry Review.
Her first book was published by Princeton University
Press, Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts.
I'm very happy to introduce Jorie Graham.
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