My name is Matt Cleland.
I'm a graduate student taking the course Poetics
and Politics.
Now to introduce our guest this evening
is Sherrie Stewart, a PhD student in AIS.
Thank you Matt.
And Stacey Oberly is pushing the space button for me.
I'm technology-- not too well with technology.
I'm going to bring the mic down.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Not as tall as Matt either.
Good evening to everyone.
It is my distinct pleasure and honor
to introduce our poet tonight.
Dr. Zepeda is a Regent Professor here at the University
of Arizona in linguistics.
She holds a MacArthur Fellowship and has
been named the Poet Laureate for the city of Tucson.
She has worked for native language
revitalization throughout the years.
To that end, she is also the director of the American Indian
Language Development Institute, which
is held here on the campus of the university each summer.
She authored three books of poetry--
Ocean Power, Earth Movements, and Where
Clouds Are Formed, which she will be reading from tonight.
And if you want to see some of her other work,
you can look on boulders along Mountain Avenue, where
her bilingual poetry is engraved just north of campus.
So please, join me in greeting Dr. Ofelia Zepeda.
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