Tonight, we're really happy to have Alison Hawthorne
Deming back with us for a second presentation, along
with visual artist, Lucinda Bliss.
Lucinda's work is on view inside the Poetry Center Library.
I'm sure many of you have been looking
at it for the last few weeks.
So we're very eager to understand what "Bandage
and Rope" is going to be.
So they'll be coming up here in just a moment.
A few announcements, of course, before we begin.
For this series, we must thank our co-sponsor, the Center
for Biological Diversity, and our other supporters,
the National Endowment for the Arts,
the UAS Institute for the Environment,
always the friends of the Poetry Center.
Art and Ecology is going to take a break next week.
However, you must come to the Poetry Center on Monday night.
We are going to launch a new College of Humanities series.
It's called "Unsettling Certainties."
This poster should be unsettling to you.
This is a new series, it's a new opportunity
for the College of Humanities faculty
to be in conversation with you, with all of you,
with the community, around topics that
should be of interest to you.
It's about making the humanities relevant to everyday life.
And our first topic will be why racism persists in the United
States of America.
There'll be a conversation led by Professor Carlos
Gallego from the English department,
and a wonderful representation of faculty
from around our college.
So please do come, Monday night, 6 o'clock.
The Art and Ecology series will resume, though,
the following week on Thursday, November 19th,
the reading by Argentine poet, Lila Zemborain,
and poet and her translator, Rosa Alcalá,
who teaches at the University of Texas in El Paso.
And the following day, on Friday at 3:30,
here, we are going to present a colloquium on translation.
They'll be talking about their work together.
So please come to both events.
Allison Deming's books are available courtesy
of U of A BookStore, right over there.
She'll be happy to sign them for you after the reading.
I've invited a new member of the Poetry Center's advisory board
to introduce Alison and Lucinda.
Ellen McMahon is associate professor
of art in the School of Art.
She's head of Visual Communications program
and co-chair of the Studio division.
And she's a very welcome new addition to our board.
Please welcome her to the podium.
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