WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.830 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.830 --> 00:00:03.807 align:middle line:84% There's so much going on, that if I 00:00:03.807 --> 00:00:05.640 align:middle line:84% take the time to make all the announcements, 00:00:05.640 --> 00:00:08.310 align:middle line:84% you won't have any time to listen to Jim Tate. 00:00:08.310 --> 00:00:12.870 align:middle line:84% So we brought a large number of the last issue 00:00:12.870 --> 00:00:15.360 align:middle line:84% to Creative Writing Newsletter, and they're out 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:17.730 align:middle line:90% on the refreshment table. 00:00:17.730 --> 00:00:21.990 align:middle line:84% And they announce the upcoming events. 00:00:21.990 --> 00:00:26.880 align:middle line:84% But for the benefit of those of you who can't read, 00:00:26.880 --> 00:00:30.890 align:middle line:84% I will announce some of them anyway. 00:00:30.890 --> 00:00:35.880 align:middle line:84% The fourth Tucson Poetry Festival 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:38.970 align:middle line:84% is this weekend, at the community center's 00:00:38.970 --> 00:00:40.650 align:middle line:90% little theater. 00:00:40.650 --> 00:00:44.370 align:middle line:84% And they really have a wonderful all-star cast this year. 00:00:44.370 --> 00:00:50.220 align:middle line:84% The readings begin Friday night at 7:30. 00:00:50.220 --> 00:00:56.280 align:middle line:84% And the first readers are the Dark Bob and Simon Ortiz. 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:00.240 align:middle line:84% On Saturday morning, there are workshops. 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:06.030 align:middle line:84% Saturday afternoon, there's an open mic reading, and a panel 00:01:06.030 --> 00:01:08.670 align:middle line:90% on poetry and politics. 00:01:08.670 --> 00:01:13.950 align:middle line:84% Saturday evening, the festival's contest winner, 00:01:13.950 --> 00:01:17.010 align:middle line:84% Carolyn Anderson of Prescott will read. 00:01:17.010 --> 00:01:19.230 align:middle line:84% Our own Sandra Demarest will read, 00:01:19.230 --> 00:01:23.766 align:middle line:84% and Denise Levertov will be here to read. 00:01:23.766 --> 00:01:25.980 align:middle line:84% At Sunday noon, there's a book signing 00:01:25.980 --> 00:01:28.860 align:middle line:84% by Diane Wakowski and Richard Shelton from their new books 00:01:28.860 --> 00:01:33.570 align:middle line:84% out from Sun Gemini Press at noon. 00:01:33.570 --> 00:01:36.450 align:middle line:84% Dorothy Lykes from Phoenix will be reading at 2 o'clock, 00:01:36.450 --> 00:01:39.600 align:middle line:84% followed by performance by the Arizona Dance Theater. 00:01:39.600 --> 00:01:43.470 align:middle line:84% And the festival will end with the reading by W. S. Merwin. 00:01:43.470 --> 00:01:46.650 align:middle line:84% So it's a wonderful weekend ahead of us. 00:01:46.650 --> 00:01:50.190 align:middle line:84% Writers at Work is sponsoring a reading next Wednesday, 00:01:50.190 --> 00:01:53.280 align:middle line:90% the novelist Richard Ford. 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:56.580 align:middle line:84% And that will be at the Terrace Lounge of the Student Union. 00:01:56.580 --> 00:01:59.950 align:middle line:90% And our next reading will be-- 00:01:59.950 --> 00:02:02.040 align:middle line:90% when is our next reading? 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:03.390 align:middle line:90% Wednesday, March 26th. 00:02:03.390 --> 00:02:05.910 align:middle line:84% And that will be to honor the students whose work has been 00:02:05.910 --> 00:02:08.190 align:middle line:84% accepted for publication in Persona, 00:02:08.190 --> 00:02:10.380 align:middle line:84% the undergraduate magazine and that 00:02:10.380 --> 00:02:15.300 align:middle line:84% will be at the University Art Museum. 00:02:15.300 --> 00:02:18.450 align:middle line:84% So all of that that I just said is in here, 00:02:18.450 --> 00:02:21.270 align:middle line:90% and it's out on the table. 00:02:21.270 --> 00:02:22.880 align:middle line:90% So don't ask me any questions. 00:02:22.880 --> 00:02:27.590 align:middle line:90% 00:02:27.590 --> 00:02:31.910 align:middle line:84% James Tate last read for us at either 1968 or 1967, 00:02:31.910 --> 00:02:33.830 align:middle line:90% so we thought it was time. 00:02:33.830 --> 00:02:35.715 align:middle line:84% Then he came again, as he said, probably 00:02:35.715 --> 00:02:37.340 align:middle line:84% half the people in the audience weren't 00:02:37.340 --> 00:02:39.560 align:middle line:90% born the last time he was here. 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:41.900 align:middle line:84% He of course, was only a child at the time. 00:02:41.900 --> 00:02:48.230 align:middle line:84% So he's teaching at the University of Massachusetts 00:02:48.230 --> 00:02:50.720 align:middle line:90% in Amherst, living in Amherst. 00:02:50.720 --> 00:02:56.120 align:middle line:84% His most recent book is Constant Defender. 00:02:56.120 --> 00:03:01.040 align:middle line:84% Other books of poetry are Riven Doggeries, Viper Jazz, 00:03:01.040 --> 00:03:04.100 align:middle line:84% Hottentot Ossuary, I love that title. 00:03:04.100 --> 00:03:12.470 align:middle line:84% Absences, Hints to Pilgrims, The Oblivion Ha-ha, The Torches, 00:03:12.470 --> 00:03:15.990 align:middle line:84% Row With Your Hair, and The Lost Pilot, 00:03:15.990 --> 00:03:18.080 align:middle line:84% which was the winner of the Yale Series of Younger 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:21.080 align:middle line:90% Poets in 1967. 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:23.900 align:middle line:84% He's received the usual honors and awards, 00:03:23.900 --> 00:03:28.370 align:middle line:84% and his work appears in many magazines and anthologies. 00:03:28.370 --> 00:03:31.176 align:middle line:84% It's a real pleasure to have him back with us, James Tate. 00:03:31.176 --> 00:03:42.090 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:42.090 --> 00:03:42.590 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:03:42.590 --> 00:03:48.830 align:middle line:90% 00:03:48.830 --> 00:03:53.520 align:middle line:84% It is nice to be here actually for a number of reasons. 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:58.375 align:middle line:84% A lot of friends here, and the gorgeous weather. 00:03:58.375 --> 00:04:01.510 align:middle line:90% 00:04:01.510 --> 00:04:03.415 align:middle line:84% I haven't seen the ground in four months. 00:04:03.415 --> 00:04:14.080 align:middle line:90% 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:17.680 align:middle line:84% I'm going to read poems from my last two books, 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:21.000 align:middle line:90% and then from a few new poems.