Welcome.
Thank you, everyone, for tuning in.
My name is Diana Delgado, and I am the Literary Director here
at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
We are here to celebrate Torrin Greathouse who
was our 2020 Summer Residency Program awardee.
But unfortunately, due to the many complications
that we've had over the past two years,
we have not been able to host them at the Poetry Center.
But what we did want to do was to celebrate the great work
that they are doing in poetry, which
was chosen by the 2020 Summer Residency judge, sam sax.
And sam said many great things about Torrin's work,
and we're excited because we'll be
able to get to hear of Torrin's work firsthand.
Just a few things about the Summer Residency Program--
we're hoping to begin that again in 2023 as best as we can.
But just a little bit about the Poetry Center
is that the Poetry Center was founded in 1994
at the University of Arizona.
And we've been offering poets the opportunity
to spend two weeks in Tucson in the summer
to focus on their writing.
Residents are housed in the Poetry Center studio apartment,
which is located just steps away from the Center's
renowned library of contemporary poetry.
Residents also receive a stipend,
and they give a public reading of the Poetry Center's reading
and lecture series, which has been ongoing since 1962.
I mentioned this, but just in case
anybody's interested in applying,
the residency is offered annually
between late June and August.
Now I have the honor of introducing Torrin.
Torrin A. Greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk,
an MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota.
Her work is published in POETRY, Ploughshares, New England
Review, and The Kenyon Review.
They have received fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Arts--
awesome , the Effing Foundation for Sex-Positivity, Zoeglossia,
and the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
She is the author of Wound Through the Mouth
of Wound, Milkweed Editions, published in 2020-- selected
for the Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry
by Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
Everyone, Torrin Greathouse.
Welcome.