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Show 7 I , .f , i . .. , - .J li v.. I - . ' y ' , r - - . 1 Bright, informed, curious Japanese students visiting the University exchange views with repre sentatives of the studentbody. They are going to be leaders in their fields, are getting view of Uie U.S. Poetry, prose Three visiting writers lecture during Writers Conference at U The first week of the 22nd annual an-nual Writers Conference at the University will come to a close today. The conference, an inten-1 inten-1 sive program of workshops and lectures for students of the art and craft of writing, is a two-week two-week program.. The conference is open to anyone, any-one, whether practicing writers, readers or students. The basic procedure is that of a studio and workshop, with technical demonstrations, demon-strations, discussion and analysis of student work. Students may submit a manuscript and meet with a staff member for private criticism. Three visiting writers are leading lead-ing the workshops and lectures on the novel, the short story and poetry. They are: William Stafford, Staf-ford, poetry; Seymour Epstein, the novel; and Jesse Hill Ford, the short story. Mr. Ford and Mr. Hill have already given their public pub-lic lectures and readings as part of the conference. Mr. Epstein will lecture Tuesday Tues-day at 11:15 -a.m. in Mark H. Greene Hall on "Nabokov: An Appreciation." It is free and open to the public. He is currently a professor at the University of Denver Den-ver and has published four novels, including The Successor and Leah, which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Memorial Book Award in 1964. Conference director Henry Taylor Tay-lor will give a reading of his own poetry Wednesday at 11:15 in Mark H. Greene Hall. Mr. Taylor is an assistant professor of English Eng-lish at the University and is the author of a collection of poems entitled, The Horse Show at Midnight. Mid-night. The final lecture of the conference confer-ence will be the annual Benjamin E. Grey Memorial Lecture, Thursday Thurs-day at 8 p.m. William Stafford, a poet from Lake Oswego, Oregon, Ore-gon, and a newly-appointed con-sulant con-sulant in poetry to the Library of Congress, will deliver the lecture. lec-ture. Mr. Stafford, currently professor profes-sor of English at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, has published four collections of poems, including includ-ing Traveling Through the Dark, which won the National Bood Award for 1962, and Allegiances, which appeared this spring. In the Grey Memorial Lecture, Dr. Stafford will discuss what he calls an "incremental way of writing writ-ing of letting a poem gradually take shape from the inside out." The Benjamin E. Grey Memorial Memor-ial Lecture is sponsored by the Ben and Abby Grey Foundation of St. Paul, Minnesota. |