WEBVTT NOTE Created by CaptionSync from Automatic Sync Technologies www.automaticsync.com 00:00:00.636 --> 00:00:02.056 align:middle >> Welcome, everybody. 00:00:02.886 --> 00:00:06.526 align:middle I'd like to make a couple of announcements before tonight's reading. 00:00:06.696 --> 00:00:13.846 align:middle First of all, we will have copies of -- do we have somebody selling Sonora Review tonight? 00:00:14.026 --> 00:00:19.176 align:middle Yes. Copies of our own Sonora Review will be for sale after the reading 00:00:19.526 --> 00:00:27.116 align:middle and the ASUA bookstore will be selling copies of Gloria Anzaldua's two most recent books 00:00:27.116 --> 00:00:31.696 align:middle after the reading so you may want to take advantage of that. 00:00:31.696 --> 00:00:36.836 align:middle Many of them have been sold, so if you still want one, I suggest you hustle right 00:00:36.836 --> 00:00:37.976 align:middle out of the auditorium after the reading. 00:00:38.256 --> 00:00:40.256 align:middle [ Inaudible Speaker ] 00:00:40.496 --> 00:00:43.656 align:middle Pardon? Well, watch my language. 00:00:44.726 --> 00:00:46.526 align:middle Unruly, unruly crowd. 00:00:47.516 --> 00:00:53.546 align:middle [ Laughter ] 00:00:54.046 --> 00:00:59.126 align:middle We are delighted to finally welcome Gloria Anzaldua to our campus. 00:00:59.126 --> 00:01:01.886 align:middle We've wanted to get her here for a while. 00:01:01.886 --> 00:01:08.116 align:middle And a number of departments and individuals at the university helped to bring her here. 00:01:08.116 --> 00:01:13.286 align:middle And we particularly want to thank Women's Studies who brought Gloria 00:01:13.286 --> 00:01:17.656 align:middle as the first Rockefeller humanist in Women' s Studies. 00:01:18.506 --> 00:01:22.076 align:middle And the Spanish Department also helped as -- 00:01:22.336 --> 00:01:27.516 align:middle we did the poetry center and the Dean of the faculty of Humanities. 00:01:27.516 --> 00:01:31.096 align:middle So, thank you to everybody and if I've left someone out, forgive me. 00:01:31.186 --> 00:01:32.386 align:middle English Department, yes. 00:01:32.456 --> 00:01:33.946 align:middle English Department, thank you. 00:01:34.516 --> 00:01:37.756 align:middle [ Laughter ] 00:01:38.256 --> 00:01:43.706 align:middle Gloria Anzaldua is co-editor of the award-winning This Bridge Called My Back: 00:01:43.886 --> 00:01:48.626 align:middle Writings by Radical Women of Color, which was published in 1983 00:01:48.626 --> 00:01:51.776 align:middle by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. 00:01:52.706 --> 00:01:58.156 align:middle In 1987, she published Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. 00:01:58.866 --> 00:02:02.826 align:middle A genre-breaking book of poetry, memoir, 00:02:03.146 --> 00:02:07.736 align:middle and historical analysis written in both Spanish and English. 00:02:08.586 --> 00:02:14.036 align:middle It was chosen as one of the 38 best books of 1987 by Library Journal. 00:02:14.036 --> 00:02:18.996 align:middle It's used in a number of courses here and in many other universities across the country. 00:02:20.576 --> 00:02:25.726 align:middle Her latest work is Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras, 00:02:25.726 --> 00:02:30.926 align:middle an anthology of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. 00:02:31.386 --> 00:02:40.596 align:middle But these facts about her life as a writer are a modest form of introduction as compared 00:02:40.596 --> 00:02:49.216 align:middle with the responsibility I have to convey to you a sense of the generosity Gloria Anzaldua brings 00:02:49.316 --> 00:02:55.176 align:middle to other writers, particularly writers of color, gay and lesbian writers, 00:02:55.626 --> 00:03:01.726 align:middle any of us who's experience leads us to feel that we are on the outside 00:03:02.186 --> 00:03:05.686 align:middle of what matters in the literary culture. 00:03:06.126 --> 00:03:16.106 align:middle Perhaps the best introduction for any poet is what the art itself can convey, poet to poet. 00:03:16.926 --> 00:03:23.076 align:middle So, to complete my introduction, I join Gloria Anzaldua 00:03:23.386 --> 00:03:27.836 align:middle in welcoming our own Tucson poet, Rita Magdaleno. 00:03:28.776 --> 00:03:36.066 align:middle She has recently had work published in Puerto del Sol, the Taos Review, the Guadalupe Review 00:03:36.066 --> 00:03:39.126 align:middle and we'll have poems coming out in the second edition 00:03:39.126 --> 00:03:42.566 align:middle of Chuck Tatum's anthology, New Chicano Writing. 00:03:42.996 --> 00:03:48.256 align:middle I think tomorrow or late tonight she's heading off to San Antonio to give a reading 00:03:48.256 --> 00:03:52.766 align:middle and workshop at the San Antonio Inter-American Book Fair and Literary Festival, 00:03:52.766 --> 00:03:55.976 align:middle so we're very happy that she can be here tonight, Rita Magdaleno. 00:03:56.516 --> 00:04:04.646 align:middle [ Applause ] 00:04:05.146 --> 00:04:05.746 align:middle >> Thank you.