Tonight's reading is the last in the series
for Writers at Work and for the Poetry Center.
But there are two events I would like to announce.
On Friday afternoon, there will be
an autograph party for LD Clark's new novel,
"The Fifth Wind."
And the party is in the exhibit lobby, the special collections
of the university library, from 2:00 to 6:00 in the afternoon.
And Sunday night, there will be an open poetry
reading at La Boca Coffeehouse.
And I'm putting out a creative newsletter--
creative writers newsletter.
[LAUGHTER]
If you don't give me anything, it
would be a creative newsletter.
So if you have any news for me, please.
OK.
We all have punch and cookies tonight at the Poetry Center.
If you're one of the two people in Pima County who haven't been
to the Poetry Center, we're at the corner
of Speedway and Highland.
We'd like to thank the ASUA Speakers
Board for their financial support for tonight's reading.
Mark Strand read for us early 1971.
And I think it's quite unfair that he looks
just the same as he did then.
[LAUGHTER]
He's published seven collections of poetry--
most recently, his Selected Poems from Atheneum in 1980--
and one collection of prose, "The Monument"
from Ecco Press in 1978.
He's the editor of three poetry anthologies
and a noted translator of such writers
as Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Rafael Alberti.
He's currently teaching at the University of Utah
in Salt Lake.
And Mr. Strand's books will be available for sale
at the reception.
I'm very happy to introduce Mark Strand.
[APPLAUSE]