WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.850 align:middle line:90% Hi everybody, welcome. 00:00:01.850 --> 00:00:03.590 align:middle line:90% How are you all? 00:00:03.590 --> 00:00:04.370 align:middle line:90% Good, OK. 00:00:04.370 --> 00:00:05.630 align:middle line:90% Can you hear me OK? 00:00:05.630 --> 00:00:06.140 align:middle line:90% Great. 00:00:06.140 --> 00:00:08.060 align:middle line:90% It sounds loud. 00:00:08.060 --> 00:00:10.063 align:middle line:84% It's nice to have folks here, feels 00:00:10.063 --> 00:00:12.230 align:middle line:84% really good to have people coming back to the Poetry 00:00:12.230 --> 00:00:13.768 align:middle line:90% Center for poetry readings. 00:00:13.768 --> 00:00:14.810 align:middle line:90% So thanks for doing this. 00:00:14.810 --> 00:00:17.030 align:middle line:84% We of course had the break during the summer, 00:00:17.030 --> 00:00:19.820 align:middle line:90% July happened to all of us. 00:00:19.820 --> 00:00:21.650 align:middle line:84% But it's really nice to be here in August, 00:00:21.650 --> 00:00:24.410 align:middle line:84% and to have poets back in this place. 00:00:24.410 --> 00:00:27.020 align:middle line:84% And it's so exciting to have Angel Dominguez here, 00:00:27.020 --> 00:00:29.690 align:middle line:84% who's been our summer poet in residence. 00:00:29.690 --> 00:00:32.840 align:middle line:84% And their presence has been beautiful, and enlarging, 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:34.910 align:middle line:90% and lots of great conversations. 00:00:34.910 --> 00:00:38.350 align:middle line:84% And we're so, so excited about Angel's presence 00:00:38.350 --> 00:00:39.350 align:middle line:90% in this reading tonight. 00:00:39.350 --> 00:00:41.330 align:middle line:90% So more to come. 00:00:41.330 --> 00:00:42.498 align:middle line:90% I'm Tyler Meier. 00:00:42.498 --> 00:00:44.540 align:middle line:84% I work here as the director at the Poetry Center. 00:00:44.540 --> 00:00:46.250 align:middle line:84% I'm going to just tell you about a couple of things coming up, 00:00:46.250 --> 00:00:48.980 align:middle line:84% really quickly, at the Poetry Center in the near term 00:00:48.980 --> 00:00:50.360 align:middle line:90% with our calendar. 00:00:50.360 --> 00:00:53.420 align:middle line:84% And hint that the fall calendar for the Poetry Center 00:00:53.420 --> 00:00:55.430 align:middle line:90% in the fall season is imminent. 00:00:55.430 --> 00:00:58.758 align:middle line:84% And so that calendar will be in the mail very, very soon. 00:00:58.758 --> 00:01:01.050 align:middle line:84% If you're not on our mailing list and would like to be, 00:01:01.050 --> 00:01:02.370 align:middle line:84% just on the other side of this wall 00:01:02.370 --> 00:01:04.709 align:middle line:84% there's a place where you can leave contact information, 00:01:04.709 --> 00:01:06.376 align:middle line:84% and we will put you on our mailing list. 00:01:06.376 --> 00:01:09.630 align:middle line:84% We send beautiful and benign emails 00:01:09.630 --> 00:01:11.250 align:middle line:84% that you can delete if you don't want. 00:01:11.250 --> 00:01:15.685 align:middle line:84% And then there are things to post up on your fridge, 00:01:15.685 --> 00:01:18.060 align:middle line:84% on your bulletin boards that tell you all the things that 00:01:18.060 --> 00:01:19.727 align:middle line:84% are happening, so you can be in the loop 00:01:19.727 --> 00:01:22.530 align:middle line:84% about readings that are coming up at the Poetry Center. 00:01:22.530 --> 00:01:24.385 align:middle line:84% We are supporting something right now called 00:01:24.385 --> 00:01:25.260 align:middle line:90% the Sealey Challenge. 00:01:25.260 --> 00:01:27.510 align:middle line:84% Is anybody reading for the Sealey Challenge right now? 00:01:27.510 --> 00:01:31.440 align:middle line:90% Some of you are, good. 00:01:31.440 --> 00:01:33.780 align:middle line:84% Does anybody not know what the Sealey challenge is? 00:01:33.780 --> 00:01:34.707 align:middle line:90% Some of you don't, OK. 00:01:34.707 --> 00:01:36.540 align:middle line:84% I'll just very quickly say, it's a challenge 00:01:36.540 --> 00:01:39.540 align:middle line:84% to read a book of poems every day for the month of August. 00:01:39.540 --> 00:01:42.720 align:middle line:84% Which sounds like a lot, but you can do it. 00:01:42.720 --> 00:01:44.880 align:middle line:90% If I can do it, you can do it. 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:46.830 align:middle line:84% And you're lucky that you live in a city that 00:01:46.830 --> 00:01:50.820 align:middle line:84% has a giant poetry center, which is-- all the books are there. 00:01:50.820 --> 00:01:53.732 align:middle line:84% So if you missed this earlier on in August 00:01:53.732 --> 00:01:56.190 align:middle line:84% and are interested, and want to do it, you still have time. 00:01:56.190 --> 00:01:57.750 align:middle line:90% You can jump right in. 00:01:57.750 --> 00:02:00.870 align:middle line:84% And I promise it'll change your brain. 00:02:00.870 --> 00:02:03.330 align:middle line:84% It's an amazing thing to put that much poetry 00:02:03.330 --> 00:02:05.910 align:middle line:90% in one place over 31 days. 00:02:05.910 --> 00:02:07.890 align:middle line:84% So come join us, it'll be a lot of fun. 00:02:07.890 --> 00:02:10.590 align:middle line:84% There's some programs happening around that, that you can learn 00:02:10.590 --> 00:02:11.910 align:middle line:90% about on the current calendar. 00:02:11.910 --> 00:02:13.362 align:middle line:90% I won't mention those right now. 00:02:13.362 --> 00:02:14.820 align:middle line:84% But that is also around the corner, 00:02:14.820 --> 00:02:16.380 align:middle line:90% if you want to pick that up. 00:02:16.380 --> 00:02:18.330 align:middle line:84% The last summer social, we have a series 00:02:18.330 --> 00:02:19.710 align:middle line:90% of summer socials in the summer. 00:02:19.710 --> 00:02:22.140 align:middle line:84% On August 23rd, there's an event at Hotel Congress, 00:02:22.140 --> 00:02:23.160 align:middle line:90% in the Copper Room. 00:02:23.160 --> 00:02:25.800 align:middle line:84% And that features the writer Gretchen Henderson. 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:29.040 align:middle line:84% And she'll be launching her new book which is called, 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:30.570 align:middle line:90% "Life in the Tar Seeps." 00:02:30.570 --> 00:02:33.600 align:middle line:84% And it's a book about environmental catastrophe, 00:02:33.600 --> 00:02:35.802 align:middle line:84% and also the resilience of creativity, 00:02:35.802 --> 00:02:38.010 align:middle line:84% and thinking about the interactions between those two 00:02:38.010 --> 00:02:39.000 align:middle line:90% things. 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:40.500 align:middle line:84% And Gretchen is a beautiful thinker, 00:02:40.500 --> 00:02:41.667 align:middle line:90% and that'll be a lot of fun. 00:02:41.667 --> 00:02:45.450 align:middle line:84% She'll be talking about that book and the work 00:02:45.450 --> 00:02:48.120 align:middle line:84% that she does generally around those intersections. 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:49.920 align:middle line:84% There's a great new exhibit at the Poetry 00:02:49.920 --> 00:02:51.180 align:middle line:90% Center called Big Books. 00:02:51.180 --> 00:02:53.610 align:middle line:90% And it is indeed big books. 00:02:53.610 --> 00:02:56.610 align:middle line:84% They're oversized editions and collections. 00:02:56.610 --> 00:02:57.720 align:middle line:90% And that is up right now. 00:02:57.720 --> 00:03:00.262 align:middle line:84% The Center is open during the summer, Tuesday through Friday, 00:03:00.262 --> 00:03:00.840 align:middle line:90% 9:00 to 5:00. 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:03.150 align:middle line:84% We'll soon switch back over to our Saturday hours 00:03:03.150 --> 00:03:06.150 align:middle line:84% when school year starts, so at the end of the month. 00:03:06.150 --> 00:03:08.610 align:middle line:84% And so come visit that exhibit, it's delightful, 00:03:08.610 --> 00:03:12.120 align:middle line:84% they're monstrous and beautiful in all of their large 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:14.550 align:middle line:90% and largesse. 00:03:14.550 --> 00:03:18.930 align:middle line:84% I want to say, we had a small miscommunication 00:03:18.930 --> 00:03:21.420 align:middle line:90% with the bookstore. 00:03:21.420 --> 00:03:24.390 align:middle line:84% And had the books that we had ordered for this reading 00:03:24.390 --> 00:03:26.340 align:middle line:90% are not here tonight. 00:03:26.340 --> 00:03:31.260 align:middle line:84% So it is coming upon you to go find Angel's books 00:03:31.260 --> 00:03:32.640 align:middle line:90% and to buy them. 00:03:32.640 --> 00:03:34.830 align:middle line:84% And Angel will be around, and so there 00:03:34.830 --> 00:03:37.740 align:middle line:84% may be a chance to even to get them signed later. 00:03:37.740 --> 00:03:40.740 align:middle line:84% But please help us support Angel's work. 00:03:40.740 --> 00:03:42.240 align:middle line:84% And you're going to hear this and be 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:44.520 align:middle line:84% excited about these books immediately, 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:46.860 align:middle line:84% and so I encourage you to seek them out. 00:03:46.860 --> 00:03:49.745 align:middle line:84% Make sure you're purchasing them and enjoying them. 00:03:49.745 --> 00:03:51.120 align:middle line:84% And I think Angel's going to read 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:53.580 align:middle line:84% from existing work, but also some new things, 00:03:53.580 --> 00:03:57.330 align:middle line:84% and talk a little bit about work that's upcoming. 00:03:57.330 --> 00:03:58.410 align:middle line:90% I will stop there. 00:03:58.410 --> 00:04:00.990 align:middle line:84% It's my pleasure to welcome up the introducer for tonight, 00:04:00.990 --> 00:04:03.720 align:middle line:84% and that is a great friend of the Poetry Center, a colleague, 00:04:03.720 --> 00:04:05.820 align:middle line:84% a great friend of mine Farid Matuk. 00:04:05.820 --> 00:04:09.330 align:middle line:84% A wonderful poet here in Tucson, treasured colleague, 00:04:09.330 --> 00:04:11.940 align:middle line:84% a translator and a poet, who teaches in the creative writing 00:04:11.940 --> 00:04:12.480 align:middle line:90% program. 00:04:12.480 --> 00:04:16.700 align:middle line:84% Please help me welcome Farid Matuk to come introduce Angel.