WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.260 align:middle line:90% Come on in. 00:00:01.260 --> 00:00:02.220 align:middle line:90% Welcome everybody. 00:00:02.220 --> 00:00:03.160 align:middle line:90% Glad you're here. 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:04.910 align:middle line:84% Welcome to the Poetry Center on a Thursday 00:00:04.910 --> 00:00:06.750 align:middle line:90% night in the spring in Tucson. 00:00:06.750 --> 00:00:09.450 align:middle line:84% This is an incredible stretch of Thursday nights at the Poetry 00:00:09.450 --> 00:00:10.620 align:middle line:90% Center right now. 00:00:10.620 --> 00:00:12.990 align:middle line:84% And if you missed Rodrigo Toscano last Thursday, 00:00:12.990 --> 00:00:15.240 align:middle line:90% don't worry, it's on Voca. 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:16.890 align:middle line:84% Glad you're here for this tonight. 00:00:16.890 --> 00:00:19.390 align:middle line:84% I want to tell you about what's coming up next at the Poetry 00:00:19.390 --> 00:00:20.970 align:middle line:84% Center, so you have a sense of what 00:00:20.970 --> 00:00:23.053 align:middle line:84% you're going to see over the next three Thursdays. 00:00:23.053 --> 00:00:25.530 align:middle line:84% Basically I'm saying, reserve your Thursdays. 00:00:25.530 --> 00:00:27.180 align:middle line:90% At least the next three of them. 00:00:27.180 --> 00:00:30.000 align:middle line:84% Coming up next we have a poetry reading back here, 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.390 align:middle line:84% Thursday, this room, 7:00 PM on the sixth. 00:00:33.390 --> 00:00:35.875 align:middle line:84% And that's Ocean Vuong and Camille Rankine. 00:00:35.875 --> 00:00:37.500 align:middle line:84% I'm really excited that they're coming. 00:00:37.500 --> 00:00:39.510 align:middle line:90% That's back here at the sixtth-- 00:00:39.510 --> 00:00:41.700 align:middle line:84% on the sixth, here, at the Poetry Center. 00:00:41.700 --> 00:00:43.560 align:middle line:84% After that, the next in the Prose Series 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:45.960 align:middle line:84% comes up this spring and that's Elena Passarello 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:46.770 align:middle line:90% and David Shields. 00:00:46.770 --> 00:00:49.500 align:middle line:84% Really excited about their presence and coming to Tucson. 00:00:49.500 --> 00:00:50.790 align:middle line:90% That's on the 13th. 00:00:50.790 --> 00:00:53.100 align:middle line:84% 7 o'clock here, at the Poetry Center, 00:00:53.100 --> 00:00:56.490 align:middle line:84% and then, finally on the 20th we have Mary Ruefle 00:00:56.490 --> 00:00:59.670 align:middle line:84% coming and reading here and she's reading at 7 o'clock, 00:00:59.670 --> 00:01:02.250 align:middle line:90% also, as well, in this room. 00:01:02.250 --> 00:01:03.120 align:middle line:90% Thursdays. 00:01:03.120 --> 00:01:04.285 align:middle line:90% What could be better? 00:01:04.285 --> 00:01:05.160 align:middle line:90% What could be better? 00:01:05.160 --> 00:01:06.580 align:middle line:90% Come join us. 00:01:06.580 --> 00:01:08.100 align:middle line:84% I also just want to quickly tell you 00:01:08.100 --> 00:01:09.930 align:middle line:84% this is appeal season at the Poetry Center, 00:01:09.930 --> 00:01:12.990 align:middle line:84% and so, if you're inclined and you 00:01:12.990 --> 00:01:15.250 align:middle line:84% like what you hear and listen to at the Poetry Center, 00:01:15.250 --> 00:01:17.250 align:middle line:84% and what we're doing here, the work that's happening, 00:01:17.250 --> 00:01:18.600 align:middle line:84% grab one of these cards, it can tell you 00:01:18.600 --> 00:01:20.340 align:middle line:84% about how to support the Poetry Center, 00:01:20.340 --> 00:01:21.990 align:middle line:90% over at the table on my right. 00:01:21.990 --> 00:01:24.720 align:middle line:84% There's no time, like this time, to show publicly, 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:26.010 align:middle line:90% your support of the arts. 00:01:26.010 --> 00:01:28.308 align:middle line:84% We're grateful for it, and it empowers all the things 00:01:28.308 --> 00:01:29.850 align:middle line:84% that we do here at the Poetry Center, 00:01:29.850 --> 00:01:31.975 align:middle line:84% including these great collaborations with the prose 00:01:31.975 --> 00:01:32.640 align:middle line:90% series. 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:34.015 align:middle line:84% I'm really glad you all are here. 00:01:34.015 --> 00:01:35.723 align:middle line:84% I'm going to welcome up Ander Monson, who 00:01:35.723 --> 00:01:38.100 align:middle line:84% will tell us more about the introducers and the readers 00:01:38.100 --> 00:01:38.600 align:middle line:90% tonight. 00:01:38.600 --> 00:01:41.190 align:middle line:84% Please help me welcome, my friend, Ander Monson, 00:01:41.190 --> 00:01:43.040 align:middle line:90% bright spirit.