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Tonight, we're really happy
to have Alison Hawthorne

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Deming back with us for a
second presentation, along

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with visual artist,
Lucinda Bliss.

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Lucinda's work is on view inside
the Poetry Center Library.

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I'm sure many of you
have been looking

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at it for the last few weeks.

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So we're very eager to
understand what "Bandage

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and Rope" is going to be.

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So they'll be coming up
here in just a moment.

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A few announcements, of
course, before we begin.

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For this series, we must thank
our co-sponsor, the Center

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for Biological Diversity,
and our other supporters,

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the National Endowment
for the Arts,

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the UAS Institute
for the Environment,

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always the friends
of the Poetry Center.

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Art and Ecology is going
to take a break next week.

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However, you must come to the
Poetry Center on Monday night.

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We are going to launch a new
College of Humanities series.

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It's called "Unsettling
Certainties."

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This poster should
be unsettling to you.

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This is a new series,
it's a new opportunity

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for the College of
Humanities faculty

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to be in conversation
with you, with all of you,

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with the community,
around topics that

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should be of interest to you.

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It's about making the humanities
relevant to everyday life.

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And our first topic will be why
racism persists in the United

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States of America.

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There'll be a conversation
led by Professor Carlos

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Gallego from the
English department,

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and a wonderful
representation of faculty

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from around our college.

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So please do come,
Monday night, 6 o'clock.

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The Art and Ecology series
will resume, though,

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the following week on
Thursday, November 19th,

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the reading by Argentine
poet, Lila Zemborain,

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and poet and her
translator, Rosa Alcalá,

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who teaches at the University
of Texas in El Paso.

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And the following day,
on Friday at 3:30,

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here, we are going to present
a colloquium on translation.

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They'll be talking about
their work together.

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So please come to both events.

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Allison Deming's books
are available courtesy

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of U of A BookStore,
right over there.

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She'll be happy to sign them
for you after the reading.

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I've invited a new member of the
Poetry Center's advisory board

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to introduce Alison and Lucinda.

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Ellen McMahon is
associate professor

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of art in the School of Art.

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She's head of Visual
Communications program

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and co-chair of the
Studio division.

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And she's a very welcome
new addition to our board.

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Please welcome
her to the podium.

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[APPLAUSE]

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