Welcome to the second annual Tucson Festival of Books.
My name is Lisa Bowden, and I will
be introducing our readers.
We would like to thank the U of A Poetry Center
and the U of A bookstore for sponsoring The International
Stage.
This reading will last approximately one hour.
Tedi will read and Wendy will do the translation.
And they have a suite of poems they'll be reading together.
And then we'll see how much time we have,
if there's time for questions afterwards.
After the reading, the poets will go to Tent C--
it's up on the board--
for a book signing in the Pepper Viner Signing Area
2, which is just outside the building, this way.
So some books will be available there at the poet signing area
and also at the publishers table.
So I'd like to introduce Tedi López Mills first.
She was born in Mexico City in 1959,
is a poet, essayist, and translator.
Her most recent work, Muerte en la rua Augusta,
just recently won the prestigious Premio Xavier
Villaurrutia.
And she has a selection of poems translated into English
by Wendy Burk, entitled, While Light is Built,
published by Kore Press.
Her other books include, Segunda Persona, Contracorriente,
and Parafrasear.
Wendy Burk is the author of a poetry chapbook called The
Deer, and the translator of a book of poems by Tedi López
Mills called While Light is Built.
She has received three artist residencies with the National
Park Service, and she is a library specialist
at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
Please help me welcome Tedi López Mills and Wendy Burk.
[APPLAUSE]
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