I'm Mark Wunderlich, and I'm the Acting Director
of the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
And I want to thank you all for coming here tonight.
We have a few announcements.
Copies of Jane Hirshfield's books
are available outside, compliments of ASUA Bookstore.
And I'm sure she'd be happy to sign some after the reading.
I would also like to announce that a limited edition fine
press broadside of one of Jane Hirshfield's poems
was printed by Mummy Mountain Press, Karla Elling being
the printer and designer there.
The paper is handmade paper made from clippings from Hirshfield's
garden, actually.
There are 20 available, and they are
being sold for $20 as a benefit for the Poetry Center.
And I want to thank Karla for her efforts and her artistry.
If people would like to purchase other copies,
they may sign a form and get them at a later date
when more are printed.
The deadline for news items for the Poetry Center newsletter
is this Thursday.
And any announcements can be left at the Poetry Center
or in our mailbox in the English department.
And I'd also like to announce that Jane Hirshfield will be
speaking informally at the Poetry Center tomorrow at 11:00
AM.
And I want to invite you all to attend that.
Our next reading will feature graduate students from the UA
creative writing program.
And that reading will be here at Wednes--
on Wednesday at 8:00 PM in Modern Languages.
Tonight's reading is sponsored by the Friends of the Poetry
Center.
In our efforts to create an independent program endowment
to support our reading series, we
are in the process of soliciting contributions from the public.
A portion of these funds have gone
to bring Jane Hirshfield here tonight.
And I want to thank the friends of the Poetry Center
for their generosity and for making this and other events
like it possible.
If you would like to become a friend of the Poetry Center,
please contact us at our offices.
Introducing our visiting poet tonight is Jane Miller.
Miller is the author of five books
of poetry, the most recent of which
is August Zero, published in 1993 by Copper Canyon Press,
and one volume of essays entitled Working Time: Essays
on Poetry, Culture, and Travel.
She is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards,
including a Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Award,
Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts
fellowships, and the Western States Book Award for Poetry.
She's a member of the faculty at the University of Arizona
and teaches in the MFA program.
Jane Miller.
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