WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.540 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.540 --> 00:00:01.530 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:00:01.530 --> 00:00:06.240 align:middle line:84% Our first reader today is going to be Peggy Shumaker. 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:07.680 align:middle line:90% Peggy is one of our own. 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:09.490 align:middle line:84% Although she wasn't born in Tucson, 00:00:09.490 --> 00:00:12.660 align:middle line:84% she came here with her family at a very, very young age, 00:00:12.660 --> 00:00:15.990 align:middle line:84% attended grammar school in high school here in Tucson, 00:00:15.990 --> 00:00:17.970 align:middle line:84% is a graduate-- got her undergraduate degree 00:00:17.970 --> 00:00:21.180 align:middle line:84% from the University of Arizona-- and received her MFA 00:00:21.180 --> 00:00:23.940 align:middle line:84% in creative writing from the University of Arizona. 00:00:23.940 --> 00:00:26.040 align:middle line:84% Currently, she lives in another beautiful place 00:00:26.040 --> 00:00:27.170 align:middle line:90% called Fairbanks, Alaska. 00:00:27.170 --> 00:00:30.180 align:middle line:90% 00:00:30.180 --> 00:00:32.940 align:middle line:84% She was a writer in residence for the Arizona Commission 00:00:32.940 --> 00:00:35.790 align:middle line:84% of the Arts and she served as poet in residence 00:00:35.790 --> 00:00:37.830 align:middle line:90% at Bucknell University. 00:00:37.830 --> 00:00:40.350 align:middle line:84% She has worked with all sorts of groups-- 00:00:40.350 --> 00:00:44.730 align:middle line:84% from prison inmates to honor students-- 00:00:44.730 --> 00:00:48.420 align:middle line:84% far, far too many to even begin to enumerate here. 00:00:48.420 --> 00:00:52.440 align:middle line:90% The workshop and excuse me-- 00:00:52.440 --> 00:00:54.270 align:middle line:84% If you have read any of her works, 00:00:54.270 --> 00:00:57.680 align:middle line:84% you know how appreciative she is, 00:00:57.680 --> 00:00:59.750 align:middle line:90% and how much she loves nature. 00:00:59.750 --> 00:01:03.590 align:middle line:84% And I must recommend to you her most recent book, a collection 00:01:03.590 --> 00:01:07.850 align:middle line:84% of poems and paintings called "Blaze," 00:01:07.850 --> 00:01:10.430 align:middle line:84% which she co-authored with Kesler Woodward, who 00:01:10.430 --> 00:01:11.330 align:middle line:90% was the artist. 00:01:11.330 --> 00:01:15.710 align:middle line:84% And now, I'd like to present to you, Peggy. 00:01:15.710 --> 00:01:19.060 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:01:19.060 --> 00:01:23.000 align:middle line:90%