WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.150 align:middle line:90% Hello, everyone. 00:00:01.150 --> 00:00:02.009 align:middle line:90% Welcome. 00:00:02.009 --> 00:00:05.130 align:middle line:84% We're glad you're here on a breezy Tucson day, a very 00:00:05.130 --> 00:00:06.533 align:middle line:90% beautiful Tucson day. 00:00:06.533 --> 00:00:08.700 align:middle line:84% Thanks for choosing to be here at the Poetry Center. 00:00:08.700 --> 00:00:11.820 align:middle line:84% We're so excited about what we're doing here today. 00:00:11.820 --> 00:00:15.090 align:middle line:84% We're celebrating the opening reception for an exhibit 00:00:15.090 --> 00:00:18.330 align:middle line:84% that we're cohosting here at the Poetry Center with the Poetry 00:00:18.330 --> 00:00:20.910 align:middle line:84% Foundation, a group out of Chicago, one 00:00:20.910 --> 00:00:23.725 align:middle line:84% of our peers on a national level for what we're doing here 00:00:23.725 --> 00:00:24.600 align:middle line:90% at the Poetry Center. 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:27.180 align:middle line:84% And we're just so thrilled about collaborating 00:00:27.180 --> 00:00:30.570 align:middle line:84% with them for this particular installation and exhibit 00:00:30.570 --> 00:00:32.460 align:middle line:84% that we're doing here at the Poetry Center. 00:00:32.460 --> 00:00:34.320 align:middle line:84% This exhibit is called "Shame Every 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:37.290 align:middle line:90% Rose, Images from Afghanistan." 00:00:37.290 --> 00:00:40.590 align:middle line:84% It includes images that are taken by the photographer 00:00:40.590 --> 00:00:43.650 align:middle line:84% Seamus Murphy, as well as the landay couplet form. 00:00:43.650 --> 00:00:45.790 align:middle line:84% And you'll hear more about that tonight. 00:00:45.790 --> 00:00:48.530 align:middle line:84% This is a form that I know through reading 00:00:48.530 --> 00:00:51.030 align:middle line:84% and that I'm excited to hear from people who are more expert 00:00:51.030 --> 00:00:51.900 align:middle line:90% than me about. 00:00:51.900 --> 00:00:55.500 align:middle line:84% But this is a form that has been translated, transcribed, 00:00:55.500 --> 00:00:57.420 align:middle line:90% by Eliza Griswold. 00:00:57.420 --> 00:00:59.580 align:middle line:84% There's good news and bad news about Eliza, 00:00:59.580 --> 00:01:01.620 align:middle line:84% and I'll get to that in a second. 00:01:01.620 --> 00:01:04.212 align:middle line:84% But I just want to quickly say is that we have visitors who 00:01:04.212 --> 00:01:05.670 align:middle line:84% are here from the Poetry Foundation 00:01:05.670 --> 00:01:07.003 align:middle line:90% that I just want to acknowledge. 00:01:07.003 --> 00:01:09.390 align:middle line:84% Again, this wouldn't be possible without their support, 00:01:09.390 --> 00:01:11.950 align:middle line:84% major supporters of this exhibit in particular. 00:01:11.950 --> 00:01:14.312 align:middle line:84% And so Robert Polito is here from the Poetry Foundation. 00:01:14.312 --> 00:01:16.020 align:middle line:84% He's the president here in the front row. 00:01:16.020 --> 00:01:17.520 align:middle line:90% We're so happy to have him here. 00:01:17.520 --> 00:01:19.800 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:01:19.800 --> 00:01:21.630 align:middle line:90% 00:01:21.630 --> 00:01:22.950 align:middle line:90% Katherine Litwin is here. 00:01:22.950 --> 00:01:25.260 align:middle line:84% Katherine is the librarian at the Poetry Foundation. 00:01:25.260 --> 00:01:26.550 align:middle line:90% She's right here as well. 00:01:26.550 --> 00:01:28.272 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:01:28.272 --> 00:01:29.960 align:middle line:90% 00:01:29.960 --> 00:01:32.240 align:middle line:84% She brought her beautiful, four-month-old daughter 00:01:32.240 --> 00:01:34.910 align:middle line:84% Jolene with her, who is wonderful, who is not here, 00:01:34.910 --> 00:01:36.092 align:middle line:90% who is sleeping. 00:01:36.092 --> 00:01:37.800 align:middle line:84% And it's not because this will be boring. 00:01:37.800 --> 00:01:39.980 align:middle line:90% It's just because she's a baby. 00:01:39.980 --> 00:01:42.290 align:middle line:84% And then also we have with us Fred Sasaki. 00:01:42.290 --> 00:01:44.390 align:middle line:84% Fred is the art director for Poetry Magazine 00:01:44.390 --> 00:01:46.952 align:middle line:84% and an agitator for many good things at the Poetry Foundation 00:01:46.952 --> 00:01:48.410 align:middle line:84% as I've learned, as he's been here, 00:01:48.410 --> 00:01:50.060 align:middle line:90% so Fred Sasaki is here as well. 00:01:50.060 --> 00:01:50.720 align:middle line:90% So thank you. 00:01:50.720 --> 00:01:52.930 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:01:52.930 --> 00:01:53.430 align:middle line:90% 00:01:53.430 --> 00:01:55.710 align:middle line:84% Thank you to the Poetry Foundation for that support. 00:01:55.710 --> 00:01:57.630 align:middle line:84% They originally commissioned and helped 00:01:57.630 --> 00:01:59.790 align:middle line:90% publish the first part of this. 00:01:59.790 --> 00:02:02.760 align:middle line:84% This is from Poetry Magazine that-- 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:05.220 align:middle line:84% the part that led to what this exhibit is. 00:02:05.220 --> 00:02:09.180 align:middle line:84% And this is a collection that includes the translated landays 00:02:09.180 --> 00:02:11.070 align:middle line:84% as well as images from Seamus Murphy's 00:02:11.070 --> 00:02:12.540 align:middle line:90% work as a photographer. 00:02:12.540 --> 00:02:14.690 align:middle line:84% And the exhibit has grown out of this. 00:02:14.690 --> 00:02:19.320 align:middle line:84% This magazine-- this issue of the magazine has sold out, 00:02:19.320 --> 00:02:21.360 align:middle line:84% and it has grown into this, which 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:24.360 align:middle line:84% is a book that's just out from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:26.160 align:middle line:84% The hardcover has been out for a while. 00:02:26.160 --> 00:02:27.960 align:middle line:84% This is the paperback copy that we were 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:29.753 align:middle line:90% lucky to arrange to have here. 00:02:29.753 --> 00:02:31.920 align:middle line:84% The paperback doesn't come out for a few more weeks, 00:02:31.920 --> 00:02:33.510 align:middle line:84% so-- but they sent them to Tucson. 00:02:33.510 --> 00:02:35.850 align:middle line:84% This is called I Am the Beggar of the World. 00:02:35.850 --> 00:02:39.030 align:middle line:84% Copies of this book will be for sale afterwards across the way. 00:02:39.030 --> 00:02:41.075 align:middle line:84% So we're, again, very, very excited about this, 00:02:41.075 --> 00:02:42.450 align:middle line:84% excited about the history for how 00:02:42.450 --> 00:02:44.242 align:middle line:84% this has happened, and excited to have this 00:02:44.242 --> 00:02:46.020 align:middle line:90% here at the Poetry Center. 00:02:46.020 --> 00:02:48.180 align:middle line:84% I would be remiss also if I did not 00:02:48.180 --> 00:02:51.270 align:middle line:84% think Wendy Burk, the Poetry Center's librarian, who 00:02:51.270 --> 00:02:54.300 align:middle line:84% made initial connections to get this exhibit to travel here. 00:02:54.300 --> 00:02:56.017 align:middle line:90% Wendy, where are you? 00:02:56.017 --> 00:02:56.850 align:middle line:90% You are right there. 00:02:56.850 --> 00:02:57.090 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:57.090 --> 00:02:57.590 align:middle line:90% So, yeah. 00:02:57.590 --> 00:03:01.330 align:middle line:90% 00:03:01.330 --> 00:03:04.210 align:middle line:84% Eternally grateful for Wendy's creativity, her wisdom, 00:03:04.210 --> 00:03:06.397 align:middle line:84% and her interest in all things poetry 00:03:06.397 --> 00:03:08.480 align:middle line:84% and how to make good things happen here in Tucson. 00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:10.750 align:middle line:84% And so she makes me very good at my job, 00:03:10.750 --> 00:03:13.540 align:middle line:84% and I'm thankful to Wendy on most days, almost every day. 00:03:13.540 --> 00:03:14.080 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:16.330 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:03:16.330 --> 00:03:17.810 align:middle line:90% Every day. 00:03:17.810 --> 00:03:19.430 align:middle line:90% Every day. 00:03:19.430 --> 00:03:19.930 align:middle line:90% Every day. 00:03:19.930 --> 00:03:23.020 align:middle line:90% 00:03:23.020 --> 00:03:25.320 align:middle line:84% Don't ask me how to catalogue books. 00:03:25.320 --> 00:03:27.193 align:middle line:90% This is why Wendy is amazing. 00:03:27.193 --> 00:03:29.610 align:middle line:84% I also want to thank the Center for Middle Eastern studies 00:03:29.610 --> 00:03:32.850 align:middle line:84% and the Office for Continuing and Professional Education 00:03:32.850 --> 00:03:34.740 align:middle line:84% housed in the Office of Global Initiatives 00:03:34.740 --> 00:03:37.200 align:middle line:84% for their additional support of the event this evening. 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:39.150 align:middle line:84% We have two upcoming events at the center 00:03:39.150 --> 00:03:40.608 align:middle line:84% that I'll just brief you on quickly 00:03:40.608 --> 00:03:42.090 align:middle line:90% before getting out of the way. 00:03:42.090 --> 00:03:44.910 align:middle line:84% One is March 11 in the Hillman Audium, 00:03:44.910 --> 00:03:47.790 align:middle line:84% is our space just out front here, where the window 00:03:47.790 --> 00:03:49.300 align:middle line:90% cantilevers out over. 00:03:49.300 --> 00:03:53.790 align:middle line:84% There will be a reading and talk entitled "Women Writing War". 00:03:53.790 --> 00:03:57.730 align:middle line:84% And this will feature poets Somaya Ramesh and Farzana 00:03:57.730 --> 00:03:58.230 align:middle line:90% Marie. 00:03:58.230 --> 00:03:59.670 align:middle line:90% This will be at 5:00 PM. 00:03:59.670 --> 00:04:03.563 align:middle line:84% This is, again, March 11, 5:00 PM, Hillman Odeum. 00:04:03.563 --> 00:04:04.980 align:middle line:84% You can learn more from the flyers 00:04:04.980 --> 00:04:07.260 align:middle line:84% that we have that are over in the reception? 00:04:07.260 --> 00:04:08.760 align:middle line:84% The flyers will be in the reception? 00:04:08.760 --> 00:04:09.260 align:middle line:90% Over here. 00:04:09.260 --> 00:04:10.390 align:middle line:90% On the table over here. 00:04:10.390 --> 00:04:13.020 align:middle line:84% You can find more on the flyers on the table over here. 00:04:13.020 --> 00:04:15.420 align:middle line:84% The next night, on March 12, we have the next reading 00:04:15.420 --> 00:04:17.279 align:middle line:84% in our Poetics and Politics series. 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:19.170 align:middle line:90% Ofelia Zepeda will be reading. 00:04:19.170 --> 00:04:23.040 align:middle line:84% And that will be 7:00 PM here in this room at the Poetry Center. 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:26.400 align:middle line:84% The bad news about Eliza is that she could not 00:04:26.400 --> 00:04:28.620 align:middle line:84% get out of New York City to be here today, 00:04:28.620 --> 00:04:30.690 align:middle line:90% and the weather was impossible. 00:04:30.690 --> 00:04:32.920 align:middle line:84% Flights were canceled, and it just could not happen. 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:35.820 align:middle line:84% The good news is she's recorded some remarks 00:04:35.820 --> 00:04:36.653 align:middle line:90% and sent them to us. 00:04:36.653 --> 00:04:38.945 align:middle line:84% And so we're excited to show those to you this evening. 00:04:38.945 --> 00:04:40.980 align:middle line:84% And so we'll have Eliza's comments about this 00:04:40.980 --> 00:04:43.290 align:middle line:84% and what she's excited about in being here. 00:04:43.290 --> 00:04:45.930 align:middle line:84% Seamus Murphy's here, which we're really pleased. 00:04:45.930 --> 00:04:49.680 align:middle line:84% He beat the storm, which is a good thing to beat. 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:51.690 align:middle line:84% It's my pleasure to introduce Fred Sasaki-- 00:04:51.690 --> 00:04:53.838 align:middle line:84% again, the art director at Poetry Magazine. 00:04:53.838 --> 00:04:55.380 align:middle line:84% And he's going to come introduce what 00:04:55.380 --> 00:04:56.820 align:middle line:90% you will hear about afterwards. 00:04:56.820 --> 00:04:59.280 align:middle line:84% And then we'll have some comments 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:02.280 align:middle line:84% and then we'll have a screening, a talk, some questions. 00:05:02.280 --> 00:05:03.660 align:middle line:84% Then we'll move over to reception 00:05:03.660 --> 00:05:05.100 align:middle line:84% and go through the exhibit for ourselves 00:05:05.100 --> 00:05:06.480 align:middle line:90% with some wine and some cookies. 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:07.500 align:middle line:90% We're glad you're here. 00:05:07.500 --> 00:05:09.030 align:middle line:84% Without further ado, Fred Sasaki. 00:05:09.030 --> 00:05:10.880 align:middle line:90% Thank you.