WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.253 align:middle line:90% Hello. 00:00:01.253 --> 00:00:01.920 align:middle line:90% How is everyone? 00:00:01.920 --> 00:00:02.760 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:00:02.760 --> 00:00:03.690 align:middle line:90% We're good. 00:00:03.690 --> 00:00:04.830 align:middle line:90% Lots of people. 00:00:04.830 --> 00:00:06.330 align:middle line:90% Even a dog. 00:00:06.330 --> 00:00:07.800 align:middle line:90% The dog's in the back. 00:00:07.800 --> 00:00:08.850 align:middle line:90% But be excited. 00:00:08.850 --> 00:00:11.920 align:middle line:84% It's here for the second time, which is great. 00:00:11.920 --> 00:00:14.220 align:middle line:84% We are a dog-friendly Poetry Center 00:00:14.220 --> 00:00:16.693 align:middle line:90% and we're glad that dog is here. 00:00:16.693 --> 00:00:18.360 align:middle line:84% Welcome, everyone, to the Poetry Center. 00:00:18.360 --> 00:00:19.390 align:middle line:90% My name is Tyler. 00:00:19.390 --> 00:00:22.470 align:middle line:84% I work as the Executive Director here at the Poetry Center. 00:00:22.470 --> 00:00:24.750 align:middle line:84% I have just a few quick things to say 00:00:24.750 --> 00:00:26.430 align:middle line:84% and then I will introduce my friend, 00:00:26.430 --> 00:00:29.610 align:middle line:90% who will introduce Thomas. 00:00:29.610 --> 00:00:32.130 align:middle line:84% Thomas is doing a lecture tonight that is called, 00:00:32.130 --> 00:00:34.890 align:middle line:84% "We the People Percussively Agree: 00:00:34.890 --> 00:00:36.780 align:middle line:84% Where The Pocket Beats and Breaks 00:00:36.780 --> 00:00:38.640 align:middle line:90% Between Go-Go and Hip-Hop." 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:39.952 align:middle line:90% And that's exciting. 00:00:39.952 --> 00:00:41.160 align:middle line:90% And we're all going to learn. 00:00:41.160 --> 00:00:45.180 align:middle line:84% So buckle in, pay attention, and be 00:00:45.180 --> 00:00:46.690 align:middle line:84% excited for what's going to happen. 00:00:46.690 --> 00:00:50.430 align:middle line:84% There's the second lecture/craft talk that's happening next week 00:00:50.430 --> 00:00:54.060 align:middle line:84% on Thursday and that is called, "The Assassination of Poetry, 00:00:54.060 --> 00:00:57.720 align:middle line:84% or How I Discovered I was Writing Cover Story Poetics. " 00:00:57.720 --> 00:01:00.660 align:middle line:84% And that will be on Thursday here again at 7:00 o'clock. 00:01:00.660 --> 00:01:03.480 align:middle line:84% On Friday, Thomas is going to travel up to Phoenix with us 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:06.060 align:middle line:84% and do a poetry reading at the Phoenix Art Museum. 00:01:06.060 --> 00:01:07.920 align:middle line:84% So be excited about all of these things. 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:09.310 align:middle line:90% Participate as you can. 00:01:09.310 --> 00:01:12.000 align:middle line:84% We're really glad you guys are here tonight in Tucson. 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:14.670 align:middle line:84% We worked really hard to arrange for perfect weather. 00:01:14.670 --> 00:01:16.650 align:middle line:90% So participate. 00:01:16.650 --> 00:01:19.300 align:middle line:84% Three quick entities to thank tonight. 00:01:19.300 --> 00:01:20.940 align:middle line:90% One is Africana Studies. 00:01:20.940 --> 00:01:22.680 align:middle line:84% You can learn more about Africana Studies 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:23.790 align:middle line:90% in this brochure. 00:01:23.790 --> 00:01:26.910 align:middle line:84% These brochures are on the table on the right over here 00:01:26.910 --> 00:01:27.780 align:middle line:90% as you guys leave. 00:01:27.780 --> 00:01:28.725 align:middle line:90% Come up, check it out. 00:01:28.725 --> 00:01:30.100 align:middle line:84% There's lots to learn about this. 00:01:30.100 --> 00:01:32.500 align:middle line:84% Cybele will say more about this in her introduction. 00:01:32.500 --> 00:01:33.917 align:middle line:84% But this is one of the things that 00:01:33.917 --> 00:01:36.360 align:middle line:84% is special about the U of A and about the Hip-Hop minor 00:01:36.360 --> 00:01:36.940 align:middle line:90% that's here. 00:01:36.940 --> 00:01:39.030 align:middle line:90% So pay attention to this. 00:01:39.030 --> 00:01:40.445 align:middle line:90% Learn more about it. 00:01:40.445 --> 00:01:42.570 align:middle line:84% I want to thank the National Endowment for the Arts 00:01:42.570 --> 00:01:45.090 align:middle line:84% for their continued support of this entire reading series 00:01:45.090 --> 00:01:46.000 align:middle line:90% this whole year. 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:46.500 align:middle line:90% Hi. 00:01:46.500 --> 00:01:47.160 align:middle line:90% Keep going. 00:01:47.160 --> 00:01:47.340 align:middle line:90% Keep going. 00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:47.840 align:middle line:90% It's great. 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:48.630 align:middle line:90% This is Hannah. 00:01:48.630 --> 00:01:50.588 align:middle line:84% And everything that's good that happens tonight 00:01:50.588 --> 00:01:51.630 align:middle line:90% is because of Hannah. 00:01:51.630 --> 00:01:53.863 align:middle line:90% So I have a very small role. 00:01:53.863 --> 00:01:55.530 align:middle line:84% The last thing that I want to say really 00:01:55.530 --> 00:01:58.290 align:middle line:84% quickly is thank you to the friends of the Poetry Center 00:01:58.290 --> 00:02:00.720 align:middle line:84% and our Walt Whitman circle for their continued support, 00:02:00.720 --> 00:02:02.930 align:middle line:84% their annual gifts that make this place keep 00:02:02.930 --> 00:02:05.430 align:middle line:84% churning and keep doing all the good things that it's doing. 00:02:05.430 --> 00:02:07.211 align:middle line:84% Lots of people who care about and support 00:02:07.211 --> 00:02:08.669 align:middle line:84% the mission of this place and we're 00:02:08.669 --> 00:02:10.139 align:middle line:90% grateful for every one of them. 00:02:10.139 --> 00:02:12.730 align:middle line:84% Every gift, big or small, makes a huge difference. 00:02:12.730 --> 00:02:15.538 align:middle line:84% And so thanks to all of you who are here who participate. 00:02:15.538 --> 00:02:17.580 align:middle line:84% Thanks to everyone here who just is participating 00:02:17.580 --> 00:02:20.170 align:middle line:84% and here because there's a poetry reading/lecture. 00:02:20.170 --> 00:02:22.000 align:middle line:90% We're glad you're all are here. 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:24.360 align:middle line:84% Please come back, and thank you for being here. 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:27.330 align:middle line:84% Without further ado, I introduce my friend Cybele Knowles. 00:02:27.330 --> 00:02:29.250 align:middle line:84% Cybele has run the reading series 00:02:29.250 --> 00:02:30.960 align:middle line:90% for years and years and years. 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:34.450 align:middle line:84% Is now transitioning and helping orient our new website, 00:02:34.450 --> 00:02:39.240 align:middle line:84% which we hope to launch in late January/early February. 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:40.110 align:middle line:90% Probably February-- 00:02:40.110 --> 00:02:40.950 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHING] 00:02:40.950 --> 00:02:42.330 align:middle line:90% --knowing websites. 00:02:42.330 --> 00:02:43.740 align:middle line:84% But we're really excited and it's 00:02:43.740 --> 00:02:46.350 align:middle line:84% going to be a big new robust exciting thing that 00:02:46.350 --> 00:02:48.030 align:middle line:84% will be Tucson based, but also be 00:02:48.030 --> 00:02:50.280 align:middle line:84% a thing that talks to people farther and farther 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:51.150 align:middle line:90% away from Tucson. 00:02:51.150 --> 00:02:53.940 align:middle line:84% And so Cybele is in charge of all of that exciting things 00:02:53.940 --> 00:02:54.968 align:middle line:90% that are happening. 00:02:54.968 --> 00:02:56.010 align:middle line:90% My friend Cybele Knowles. 00:02:56.010 --> 00:02:57.591 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:57.591 --> 00:02:58.091 align:middle line:90%