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- Again, I'm Simmons
and it is my pleasure

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to introduce Wendy Burk.

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I'm going to do
that in two parts

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to echo Wendy's
reading this evening.

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Part one, traditional.

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Wendy Burk is the author of
Tree Talks: Southern Arizona,

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and the translator of Tedi
López Mills' Against the Current

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and While Light Is Built, a
particularly outstanding book.

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And I would say that about the
first one, well the new one,

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but I haven't read it yet.

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But I know it's going to be.

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Wendy is the recipient of a 2013
National Endowment for the Arts

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Translation Projects Fellowship
and a 2015 artist research

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and development grant from the
Arizona Commission on the Arts.

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She has also been an artist
in residence with the National

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Park Service at Isle Royale,
Buffalo River, and Big Cypress.

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Wendy is as we've heard the
University of Arizona Poetry

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Center's librarian, and
if I may say so myself,

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an all around
exceptional person.

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- Part two, nontraditional.

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In writing about
birds, cactus wrens

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to be precise, Wendy says,
roots, we all have them.

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In writing about
mountains, Wendy

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says we are going
up, up, up nature

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is going down, down, down.

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She is a poet and translator
and therefore a philosopher,

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in more than one
language of course.

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Science is a muscle waiting for
small alterations, she says.

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It is the hour of the
Earth's course cat

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and time traced in the falling
of the rock, she translates.

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Speaking of translation, she
says within the pessimism

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there is possibility.

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So open yourselves now
to that possibility

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and join me in welcoming my
favorite poet, translator,

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philosopher, Wendy Burk.

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