My name's Tyler.
I work here is the director at the Poetry Center.
Glad you guys are all choosing to be here tonight.
I wanted to tell you a little bit about the reading
that you're at tonight.
This is the-- what we're realizing
is the fifth iteration of the Hannelore Quander-Rattee
Works-in-Translation reading.
And we're so excited about this reading.
It has had many great poets here already.
And we're so excited about Sawako's presence here tonight
for this next iteration of this reading series.
Hannelore Quander-Rattee was a poet and a translator
here in Tucson and also an editor, a great cultural actor
participating in many different ways in the literary lifestyle
and scene of both Tucson and Bisbee and elsewhere.
She translated especially, Gunter Eich from the German,
as well as the works of Heinrich Boll.
And so we're excited to, again, offer this iteration
of this reading tonight and celebrate works in translation
and poets who are working in translation
and in the own poems as well.
I am very excited to welcome up my colleague Sarah
Kortemeier, the instruction and outreach librarian
here at the Poetry Center, who is an engine of life
at the Poetry Center and connects us in many ways
to what happens on campus and elsewhere
as well as taking care of all of the amazing books
and other resources across the way.
So please help me welcome my colleague Sarah Kortemeier.
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