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Welcome to today's colloquium
with Robert Pinsky.

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This is going to
be largely a Q and A,

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and I'm leaving it up to
Robert to shape the morning how

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he chooses.

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But another opportunity
for you to engage with him.

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So as those of you know who
attended yesterday's lecture,

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Robert Pinsky is a former US
poet laureate, acclaimed author

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of six books of poetry,
several books of criticism,

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and a new prose work
called "The Life of David."

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He also founded the
Favorite Poem Project

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in which thousands of
Americans across the country

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submitted their favorite
poems, which produced

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a number of anthologies.

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Many of you have seen him on
the NewsHour on PBS, I'm sure.

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I also want to tell
you that Robert

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is no stranger to the University
of Arizona Poetry Center.

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He's read for visiting poets
in Writers Reading series

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in at least two
occasions in 1980.

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In fact, we were just looking
at a photograph of him

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that was taken at that time
over at the Poetry Center.

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You could come by and see it.

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Pretty embarrassing.

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[LAUGHTER]

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He looks great.

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He still looks great.

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He read again in
1994, and we're so

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happy to have him back and
hope that we might entice

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him to return in
2007 when we move

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into our new building,
which is going to be

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right across the way there.

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You can go look at our sign
also after the reading.

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We're very grateful
to the provost

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for inviting Robert Pinsky
to the University of Arizona

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and to our sponsors of this
event, including TIAA-CREF.

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So without further ado, let
me welcome Robert Pinsky.