WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.640 align:middle line:84% This event tonight is really two events. 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:06.450 align:middle line:84% It's a reading by the poets Eduardo Corral and Natalie 00:00:06.450 --> 00:00:07.200 align:middle line:90% Diaz. 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:10.620 align:middle line:84% And it's also the inauguration of an annual reading. 00:00:10.620 --> 00:00:13.467 align:middle line:84% The Morgan Lucas Schuldt Memorial Reading. 00:00:13.467 --> 00:00:15.550 align:middle line:84% And I'll talk a little bit about that in a second. 00:00:15.550 --> 00:00:18.090 align:middle line:84% But before I get started, many of you 00:00:18.090 --> 00:00:19.890 align:middle line:84% know Cybele Knowles, who's up here. 00:00:19.890 --> 00:00:21.720 align:middle line:84% Cybele, will you raise your hand? 00:00:21.720 --> 00:00:24.420 align:middle line:84% If you see her later afterwards, wink at her 00:00:24.420 --> 00:00:27.130 align:middle line:84% because she organize this, everything that happens here. 00:00:27.130 --> 00:00:29.340 align:middle line:90% So-- and be very excited. 00:00:29.340 --> 00:00:31.440 align:middle line:90% She does an amazing work. 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:33.450 align:middle line:84% A few words about this inauguration. 00:00:33.450 --> 00:00:35.520 align:middle line:84% For a number of years now the Poetry Center 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:39.420 align:middle line:84% has presented an annual reading of emerging and/or innovative 00:00:39.420 --> 00:00:40.470 align:middle line:90% poets. 00:00:40.470 --> 00:00:42.330 align:middle line:84% Recently, we've been calling this the Next 00:00:42.330 --> 00:00:43.740 align:middle line:90% Word in Poetry Reading. 00:00:43.740 --> 00:00:45.690 align:middle line:84% You can search on our readings archive 00:00:45.690 --> 00:00:47.520 align:middle line:84% and see who has been here in the past. 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:49.290 align:middle line:90% We featured such writers-- 00:00:49.290 --> 00:00:50.790 align:middle line:90% and this is just a short list-- 00:00:50.790 --> 00:00:51.870 align:middle line:90% Kazim Ali. 00:00:51.870 --> 00:00:53.220 align:middle line:90% Dan Beachy-Quick. 00:00:53.220 --> 00:00:54.390 align:middle line:90% Olena Davis. 00:00:54.390 --> 00:00:55.320 align:middle line:90% Camille Dungy. 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:56.550 align:middle line:90% Matthea Harvey. 00:00:56.550 --> 00:00:58.140 align:middle line:90% Loren Goodman. 00:00:58.140 --> 00:00:59.520 align:middle line:90% Suji Kwock Kim. 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:00.300 align:middle line:90% Ben Lerner. 00:01:00.300 --> 00:01:01.530 align:middle line:90% Joyelle McSweeney. 00:01:01.530 --> 00:01:02.700 align:middle line:90% Rusty Morrison. 00:01:02.700 --> 00:01:04.050 align:middle line:90% Srikanth Reddy. 00:01:04.050 --> 00:01:05.190 align:middle line:90% Zachary Schomburg. 00:01:05.190 --> 00:01:06.240 align:middle line:90% Brandon Shimoda. 00:01:06.240 --> 00:01:07.038 align:middle line:90% Richard Siken. 00:01:07.038 --> 00:01:07.830 align:middle line:90% And Catherine Wing. 00:01:07.830 --> 00:01:08.790 align:middle line:90% The list goes on. 00:01:08.790 --> 00:01:10.260 align:middle line:90% A list of very exciting poets. 00:01:10.260 --> 00:01:13.380 align:middle line:84% You can find each of these readings also archived 00:01:13.380 --> 00:01:16.650 align:middle line:84% on Voca, our online out of audio visual archive 00:01:16.650 --> 00:01:18.600 align:middle line:90% that's hosted on our website. 00:01:18.600 --> 00:01:20.430 align:middle line:84% Starting with tonight though we're 00:01:20.430 --> 00:01:22.620 align:middle line:84% renaming this series and this event, 00:01:22.620 --> 00:01:25.560 align:middle line:84% and it will be called the Morgan Lucas Schuldt Memorial 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:27.840 align:middle line:90% Reading going forward. 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:30.180 align:middle line:84% A generous gift from Boyer Rickel, one 00:01:30.180 --> 00:01:33.840 align:middle line:84% of our Walt Whitman's Circle members made in Morgan's memory 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:36.270 align:middle line:84% to the Poetry Center's Programs Endowment 00:01:36.270 --> 00:01:40.470 align:middle line:84% has enabled us to name this event after Morgan. 00:01:40.470 --> 00:01:42.090 align:middle line:84% The Poetry Center is honored to be 00:01:42.090 --> 00:01:46.890 align:middle line:84% a part of this truly fitting tribute to Morgan's life, 00:01:46.890 --> 00:01:48.720 align:middle line:90% to Morgan spirit. 00:01:48.720 --> 00:01:49.680 align:middle line:90% A native of Tom-- 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:52.830 align:middle line:84% a native of Toms River, New Jersey, Morgan Lucas Schuldt 00:01:52.830 --> 00:01:55.800 align:middle line:84% came to Tucson to earn his MFA in poetry 00:01:55.800 --> 00:01:57.270 align:middle line:90% at the University of Arizona. 00:01:57.270 --> 00:02:00.480 align:middle line:84% By the time of his early death from complications 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:03.780 align:middle line:84% from cystic fibrosis he had become a published poet, 00:02:03.780 --> 00:02:06.270 align:middle line:84% and a publisher of poetry himself. 00:02:06.270 --> 00:02:09.539 align:middle line:84% He was dedicated, he was exceptionally generous, 00:02:09.539 --> 00:02:12.450 align:middle line:84% he was charismatic, and he was talented. 00:02:12.450 --> 00:02:15.570 align:middle line:84% He was greatly loved and he is deeply missed. 00:02:15.570 --> 00:02:18.120 align:middle line:84% The Poetry Center is exceptionally proud 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:20.070 align:middle line:84% that our annual reading, specifically, 00:02:20.070 --> 00:02:23.490 align:middle line:84% celebrating the vigor and newness in poetry, 00:02:23.490 --> 00:02:27.640 align:middle line:84% is now associated in Morgan's name. 00:02:27.640 --> 00:02:30.600 align:middle line:84% First Eduardo Corral will read for about 20 minutes and then 00:02:30.600 --> 00:02:32.920 align:middle line:90% Natalie Diaz afterwards. 00:02:32.920 --> 00:02:35.963 align:middle line:84% And then we'll follow both of their readings with a Q&A. 00:02:35.963 --> 00:02:38.130 align:middle line:84% After the reading there will also be a book signing, 00:02:38.130 --> 00:02:40.050 align:middle line:84% and so I encourage you to grab those books, 00:02:40.050 --> 00:02:42.180 align:middle line:90% find them, and then cake. 00:02:42.180 --> 00:02:44.820 align:middle line:84% And now, I will just quickly introduce the introducer, 00:02:44.820 --> 00:02:47.160 align:middle line:90% who's Lucas Wildner. 00:02:47.160 --> 00:02:49.800 align:middle line:84% Lucas Wildner is a poet in the MFA program at the University 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:52.830 align:middle line:84% of Arizona and teaches delightfully awesome students 00:02:52.830 --> 00:02:54.930 align:middle line:84% at University High School as well. 00:02:54.930 --> 00:02:56.370 align:middle line:90% He does double duty. 00:02:56.370 --> 00:02:58.830 align:middle line:84% Of his publications, he noted to us the inclusion of two 00:02:58.830 --> 00:03:02.220 align:middle line:84% of his poems in a recent anthology by Sibling Rivalry 00:03:02.220 --> 00:03:04.920 align:middle line:84% Press, This Assignment Is So Gay-- 00:03:04.920 --> 00:03:08.070 align:middle line:84% LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching. 00:03:08.070 --> 00:03:11.160 align:middle line:84% Lucas is also a Poetry Center volunteer of long standing 00:03:11.160 --> 00:03:13.770 align:middle line:84% and most recently he's volunteered to lead the shop 00:03:13.770 --> 00:03:16.980 align:middle line:84% talk discussion of poetry of Eduardo and Natalie 00:03:16.980 --> 00:03:19.260 align:middle line:84% that happened on Tuesday before this event. 00:03:19.260 --> 00:03:23.060 align:middle line:84% Please help me welcome Lucas Wildner.