Everyone, welcome to the Poetry Center.
I'm Diana Delgado.
I'm the literary director here, and I'm really
excited to welcome Daniel Borzutzky here to read tonight.
I have a few housekeeping notes.
Actually, I have a lot.
So I have a list of things here, that I was
like I have to print this out.
So anyway, the first thing is I just
want to again welcome Daniel here to the Poetry Center.
And one of the other things I want to do
is just sort of mention that this
is a Hannelore Quander-Rattee reading,
and that we're really excited about the continued
the continued opportunity to offer these readings
in the spirit of Hannelore.
We're also grateful for the support
of for all of the named readings that we do here
at the Poetry Center.
The other thing I wanted to mention
was that we have two transplants that are here in Tucson now,
and that is Lissie Jacquette and Kelsi
Vanada, who are part of ALTA.
And ALTA is the largest membership-based translation
org in the country that is now housed at the U of A.
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Yes, that's a big deal.
That's a big deal.
And they're in affiliation with the Poetry Center.
So we're really excited about the upcoming opportunities,
about the conference being here, and a whole bunch
of other things.
So welcome.
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Our spring calendar is out.
It's right over here.
Where at the end of the reading, if you wanted to pick up books.
There's the calendar.
I want to quickly remind you about two upcoming readings
that are coming up.
And this is Nicole Walker, who is part of the Prose
Series on January 24.
And then we have Kiki Petrosino, who
is going to be coming as part of the reading and lecture series
January 31.
And briefly, the other thing that I want to mention
is that we have--
that's it.
That's actually it.
Too many things.
So the last thing that I want to do
is I want to welcome Gabe Dozal.
He's a poetry MFA student here at the U of A
and he's going to be telling us more about Daniel Borzutzky.
Thank you.
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