WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.900 align:middle line:90% Hi. 00:00:00.900 --> 00:00:04.500 align:middle line:84% Welcome to the first evening of the Spring 2005 Visiting Poets 00:00:04.500 --> 00:00:06.150 align:middle line:90% and Writers Reading Series. 00:00:06.150 --> 00:00:09.480 align:middle line:84% I'm Frances Sjoberg, literary director of the Poetry Center, 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:12.190 align:middle line:84% and we're thrilled to kick off tonight-- 00:00:12.190 --> 00:00:15.630 align:middle line:84% this season with David Dominguez, Brenda Shaughnessy, 00:00:15.630 --> 00:00:18.150 align:middle line:90% and Gary Copeland Lilley. 00:00:18.150 --> 00:00:19.860 align:middle line:84% These poets were selected to read 00:00:19.860 --> 00:00:22.020 align:middle line:84% as part of our series, Emergence: 00:00:22.020 --> 00:00:25.800 align:middle line:84% The Next Word in Poetry, because we at the Poetry Center, 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:28.380 align:middle line:84% believe their work heralds a dynamic era 00:00:28.380 --> 00:00:30.450 align:middle line:90% for American poetry. 00:00:30.450 --> 00:00:32.280 align:middle line:84% Our readers will be introduced tonight 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:34.620 align:middle line:84% by graduate poets in the University of Arizona's 00:00:34.620 --> 00:00:36.210 align:middle line:90% Creative Writing program. 00:00:36.210 --> 00:00:40.530 align:middle line:84% They are Jodi Kendall, Dawn Pendergast, and Josh Fox. 00:00:40.530 --> 00:00:42.720 align:middle line:84% We didn't review the reading order tonight, 00:00:42.720 --> 00:00:46.050 align:middle line:84% so we're going to do it in that order, if that's OK. 00:00:46.050 --> 00:00:49.340 align:middle line:84% David, and then Brenda, and then Gary.