Friday, April, 23, 1965 University Daily Kansan
Page 13
Poetry Hour To Present La Follette
During the next weeks the KU department of English and the SUA Poetry Hour will bring four distinguished and widely known poets to Lawrence for poetry readings.
The visitors will be Melvin Walker La Follette of New Haven, Conn., Langston Hughes of New York City, Robert Creeley of Placitas, N.M., and Robert Duncan of San Francisco, Calif.
The first poet, Melvin Walker La Follette, will appear at 3:30 p.m. today in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. He will read selections from his book of poems, "The Clever Body."
COMMENTING ON THIS POETRY in "The New Republic," the critic William Raymond Smith has written that La Follette's "verse is poetry and not pedantry. . . . It is perverse not to hope the direction towards which artists like La Follette point will become the dominant pattern in American art."
He has also read at Coffee Gallery in San Francisco and at the YM-YWHA Poetry Center in New York. His reading of the poem, "The Ballad of the Red Fox," which he published first in "The New Yorker," is on the Scott Foresman record, "America Listens to Literature."
La Follette is an experienced poetry reader, who has appeared at the universities of Washington, Chicago, British Columbia, Oregon, Oregon State, and California at Riverside.
LA FOLLETTE is a graduate of the Poetry Workshop of the University of Iowa (M.A., 1953), where he studied with John Berryman and Robert Lowell.
Argersinger Speech To Be Next Thursday
William J. Argersinger, associate dean of faculties for research, will speak at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 29, in Dyche Auditorium. An error in yesterday's University Daily Kansan reported the speech was to be given last night.
REMEMBER MOTHER
We Wire Flowers Anywhere and we're as near as your phone VI 3-3255 (place your order early and save)
SUA FRIDAY SUA FLICKS
To Kill A Mockingbird
Gregory Peck
ADMISSION 35c
FRASER THEATER 7:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m.