WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.450 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.450 --> 00:00:02.860 align:middle line:90% Thank you for coming tonight. 00:00:02.860 --> 00:00:07.270 align:middle line:84% I'm Jennifer Adams, higher education program specialist 00:00:07.270 --> 00:00:10.360 align:middle line:84% here at Phoenix Art Museum and part of the education team. 00:00:10.360 --> 00:00:13.600 align:middle line:84% Phoenix Art Museum is delighted to partner 00:00:13.600 --> 00:00:16.360 align:middle line:84% with the University of Arizona Poetry Center 00:00:16.360 --> 00:00:20.710 align:middle line:84% to bring poets to Phoenix for these exciting readings. 00:00:20.710 --> 00:00:22.600 align:middle line:84% With tonight's readings, we're halfway 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:27.190 align:middle line:84% through our 2017, 2018 season, marking 00:00:27.190 --> 00:00:30.610 align:middle line:84% the fourth year of collaborating with the Poetry Center. 00:00:30.610 --> 00:00:33.730 align:middle line:84% Among our many partners who make these readings happen 00:00:33.730 --> 00:00:37.840 align:middle line:84% at the museum, we want to thank the Angela and Leonard Singer 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:41.560 align:middle line:84% Endowment for Performing Arts for their ongoing support 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:44.290 align:middle line:84% of the collaboration and Tyler Meier 00:00:44.290 --> 00:00:46.090 align:middle line:84% and Hannah Ensor of the Poetry Center 00:00:46.090 --> 00:00:49.195 align:middle line:84% who work tirelessly to bring us phenomenal poets. 00:00:49.195 --> 00:00:58.290 align:middle line:90% 00:00:58.290 --> 00:01:01.050 align:middle line:84% After tonight's reading, be sure to visit Past, Future, 00:01:01.050 --> 00:01:04.319 align:middle line:84% Present: Contemporary Art from the Museum of Modern Art, Sao 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:08.070 align:middle line:84% Paulo, and mark your calendars for two highly anticipated 00:01:08.070 --> 00:01:12.840 align:middle line:84% exhibitions in 2018, Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:15.660 align:middle line:84% and Veleska Soares, Any Moment Now. 00:01:15.660 --> 00:01:17.590 align:middle line:84% Thank you for joining us this evening. 00:01:17.590 --> 00:01:20.270 align:middle line:84% I'm going to pass this over to Tyler. 00:01:20.270 --> 00:01:21.154 align:middle line:90%