WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.250 align:middle line:90% Hi, everyone. 00:00:02.250 --> 00:00:03.270 align:middle line:90% Yay. 00:00:03.270 --> 00:00:03.915 align:middle line:90% We're back. 00:00:03.915 --> 00:00:06.870 align:middle line:90% 00:00:06.870 --> 00:00:11.790 align:middle line:84% I guess our last reading was in April, 00:00:11.790 --> 00:00:15.012 align:middle line:84% but it's been a good break for us. 00:00:15.012 --> 00:00:16.470 align:middle line:84% Everyone who doesn't know who I am, 00:00:16.470 --> 00:00:20.250 align:middle line:84% I better mention that, Diana Delgado, literary director here 00:00:20.250 --> 00:00:22.230 align:middle line:90% at the Poetry Center. 00:00:22.230 --> 00:00:25.560 align:middle line:84% Very happy to just say we had a really great break. 00:00:25.560 --> 00:00:29.820 align:middle line:84% And Paola Valenzuela, the event coordinator, and myself 00:00:29.820 --> 00:00:33.900 align:middle line:84% have been working very hard in creating the upcoming series. 00:00:33.900 --> 00:00:36.480 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:00:36.480 --> 00:00:39.180 align:middle line:84% As well as the other members of the Poetry Center team, 00:00:39.180 --> 00:00:42.510 align:middle line:84% who work really, really hard to create this reading series 00:00:42.510 --> 00:00:45.520 align:middle line:90% for the Tucson community. 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:55.380 align:middle line:84% I am so excited to host Anthony Cody and Mai Der Vang tonight. 00:00:55.380 --> 00:00:57.765 align:middle line:90% Let's give an applause for them. 00:00:57.765 --> 00:01:05.060 align:middle line:90% 00:01:05.060 --> 00:01:08.090 align:middle line:84% The Poetry Center hosts residents here, 00:01:08.090 --> 00:01:10.640 align:middle line:84% fellows who get to spend a little bit 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:13.670 align:middle line:84% more time in the Poetry Center cottage 00:01:13.670 --> 00:01:17.180 align:middle line:84% working and developing new work and spending 00:01:17.180 --> 00:01:18.440 align:middle line:90% time in the library. 00:01:18.440 --> 00:01:21.530 align:middle line:84% And that's what Anthony and Mai Der have been doing, 00:01:21.530 --> 00:01:23.390 align:middle line:84% and we're just thankful that they 00:01:23.390 --> 00:01:25.100 align:middle line:90% decided to spend the time here. 00:01:25.100 --> 00:01:27.020 align:middle line:84% They brought all this rain to us, 00:01:27.020 --> 00:01:30.590 align:middle line:84% and we're just so thankful to have them here, 00:01:30.590 --> 00:01:32.270 align:middle line:84% and we're looking forward to learning 00:01:32.270 --> 00:01:35.540 align:middle line:84% what new work that they end up creating from their time here. 00:01:35.540 --> 00:01:38.910 align:middle line:90% 00:01:38.910 --> 00:01:43.622 align:middle line:84% I want to share a few notes about the upcoming reading 00:01:43.622 --> 00:01:45.330 align:middle line:84% series, and I'll do that at the very end, 00:01:45.330 --> 00:01:48.480 align:middle line:84% and I'll also talk a little bit about some amazing classes 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:53.760 align:middle line:84% and workshops that we will be curating for the fall. 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:56.710 align:middle line:84% We won't have a Q & A, but we will have books for sale, 00:01:56.710 --> 00:02:00.730 align:middle line:84% so we'll be book signing right after the reading. 00:02:00.730 --> 00:02:03.480 align:middle line:84% I want to share that we will first 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:08.720 align:middle line:84% have Anthony Cody reading, and Anthony 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:12.470 align:middle line:84% will be introduced by Susan Briante, who 00:02:12.470 --> 00:02:14.300 align:middle line:84% is a professor here at The U of A, 00:02:14.300 --> 00:02:18.020 align:middle line:84% and whose most recent book, "Defacing the Monument," 00:02:18.020 --> 00:02:20.150 align:middle line:90% is out on Noemi Press. 00:02:20.150 --> 00:02:22.280 align:middle line:84% And so if you have not picked up that book, 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:25.160 align:middle line:90% you should pick that book up. 00:02:25.160 --> 00:02:26.240 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:31.400 align:middle line:90% Say-- oh, I'm so sorry. 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:32.550 align:middle line:90% It's the other way around. 00:02:32.550 --> 00:02:35.420 align:middle line:84% I'm going to just sort of say the other introducers bio, 00:02:35.420 --> 00:02:37.530 align:middle line:84% and then you all know what to do. 00:02:37.530 --> 00:02:40.490 align:middle line:90% You're going to get up here. 00:02:40.490 --> 00:02:41.810 align:middle line:90% Susan's here. 00:02:41.810 --> 00:02:44.030 align:middle line:84% She's going to be introducing, and she'll come up. 00:02:44.030 --> 00:02:47.030 align:middle line:84% She knows more than I do when she'll come up. 00:02:47.030 --> 00:02:49.700 align:middle line:84% But we also have another introducer here, 00:02:49.700 --> 00:02:51.590 align:middle line:84% and I'm just going to invite them up soon, 00:02:51.590 --> 00:02:55.730 align:middle line:84% but I want to just say a few things about Gabriel Dozal. 00:02:55.730 --> 00:02:57.590 align:middle line:84% Gabriel Dozal is a proud graduate 00:02:57.590 --> 00:02:59.450 align:middle line:84% of the University of Creative Writing-- 00:02:59.450 --> 00:03:01.640 align:middle line:84% The University of Arizona creative writing 00:03:01.640 --> 00:03:04.520 align:middle line:84% program, and wishes he was still in the MFA. 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:07.310 align:middle line:90% That says a lot. 00:03:07.310 --> 00:03:10.610 align:middle line:84% His poetry appears in Poetry Magazine, Guernica, 00:03:10.610 --> 00:03:12.560 align:middle line:84% the Iowa Review, and the Brooklyn Rail, 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:14.780 align:middle line:90% among other places. 00:03:14.780 --> 00:03:17.780 align:middle line:84% Please remember this title because his book, 00:03:17.780 --> 00:03:20.900 align:middle line:84% "The Border Simulator," will be published by One World Random 00:03:20.900 --> 00:03:22.580 align:middle line:90% House in 2023. 00:03:22.580 --> 00:03:24.580 align:middle line:90% So welcome. 00:03:24.580 --> 00:03:30.027 align:middle line:90%