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Welcome to The Poetry Center.

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I'm Diana Delgado.

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I'm the literary director here.

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And we're really excited
to welcome Rosa Alcala here

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tonight.

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So, welcome, Rosa.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Very excited.

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I want to share a little
bit about why Rosa is here.

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I mean, aside from her being a
brilliant poet and translator.

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But I want to talk a little
bit about the Hannelore

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Quander-Ratee
Works-In-Translation Reading.

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And this is something that we
do every year for the past six

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years.

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And it's an annual
presentation in the University

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of Arizona Poetry Center's
reading and lecture series that

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was established in 2014.

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And this event
features translators

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of poetry, international poets
and writers and scholars,

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working with the boundless
possibilities of translation.

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Hannelore and Michael Ratee
moved to Tucson, Arizona

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in 1978 and immersed
themselves in the poetry scene.

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Hannelore was managing editor
of Prickly Pear Tucson, a poetry

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quarterly, co-directed
the Mosaic Reading Series,

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and served on the Tucson
Poetry Festival Committee.

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During this time, she
wrote her own poems

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and translated work
from and into German.

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Especially fond of the work of
Gunter Eich, her translation

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of his radio play Tiger Jussuf
Was produced on Arizona Public

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Radio.

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Working with William
Pitt Root, she also

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translated the poems
of Heinrich Boll.

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Hannelore's poems
and translations

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appeared in Sonora Review,
Poetry International, Star-Web

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Paper, Prickly Pear/Tucson,
Brushfire, Turquoise Tears,

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New Kauri, Tucson Weekly,
Fennel Stalk, Laundromat,

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and other places.

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We are so excited to present
Rose Alcala as this year's

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Hannelire Quander-Rattee
Works-In-Translation Reading.

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And I want to also remind
everyone else that along with

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this reading, next week
on Thursday, February 6,

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that we're going to be
hosting Carolyn Forché.

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Yay.

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[LAUGHTER]

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[APPLAUSE]

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I don't know what
is wrong with me.

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I think I ate too much
red meat at dinner.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And I'm like, what is happening?

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It's not computing.

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But thank you for
bearing with me.

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I promise I can talk and read.

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There are two reminders
that I always say here.

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We have books for sale.

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Please support our poets.

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We have two of
Rosa's books here.

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And then the other thing is that
the end of the reading, we're

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going to have just a quick
Q&A. So as the reading goes on,

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just be thinking about that.

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We also have Kelsi Vanada.

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I'm going to invite
a very shortly.

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But I just want to share a
little bit about Kelsi Vanada,

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who is going to introduce Rosa.

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Kelsi Vanada is
the program manager

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of Alta, the American Literary
Translators Association,

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affiliated, as of a
year ago, with the UA

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College of Humanities.

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She is a poet and
translator from Spanish

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and sometimes Swedish.

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Her translations
include The Eligible Age

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by Berta Garcia Faet
and Into Muteness

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by Sergio Espinosa just
out from Veliz Books.

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Her book of poems, Rare Earth,
will be published in March.

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And thank you, Kelsi.

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I want to welcome you up.

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[APPLAUSE]

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