Hello, everybody.
Welcome.
Hello.
How is everybody?
Good.
Hooray.
Good to see folks.
Happy Thursday.
Glad people are here.
Welcome to the Poetry Center.
My name is Tyler.
I work here as the director.
We're happy to see people here and availing themselves
of a great poetry reading.
It's going to be a great one tonight from one
of my favorite poets, so glad everybody's
made this good choice to be here with us.
A couple of housekeeping things want
to say before we get going, and that is about some upcoming
programs at the Poetry Center.
So two upcoming readings.
We're in a slate right now where there
are six readings in a row, so your Thursdays
are set for the next six weeks.
I'm just going to tell you about two
of the ones that are coming up next.
So next week on Thursday night on the 26th of October,
we have Eileen Myles who'll be visiting.
That's back here at 7:00 at the Poetry Center.
And then following that, the first Thursday in November,
we have the poets Adam Davis and Manuel Paul López,
and we're really excited about that reading, too.
And then there more to come and beyond that,
but have those on your list and plan your Thursdays.
Come see us.
I'll be looking for each of you back here on those days.
To anticipate Eileen's visit, this Saturday at the Poetry
Center, our docents lead poetry circles,
which are conversations that are informal.
A packet is prepared.
You get a chance to look at the poet's work
and explore it with other people who
are curious about what the poets are up to, and so that one will
be about Eileen's work at 1:00 this Saturday
here at the Poetry Center back in this space as well.
So if you're interested in learning a little bit more
about that in advance of their visit,
you can do that by visiting the poetry circle
and coming and learning a bit more.
Also, next week on Tuesday night,
there's a talk by the artist Favianna Rodriguez.
So if you noticed in the breezeway,
there are all these giant, really beautiful stickers,
but more than stickers.
And so they are different species of the Sonoran desert
that have suffered from the border wall's presence-- and so
about their movement and how they
interact with desert spaces.
And Favianna uses part of this in her artwork
to think about how we think about the places where we are
and some of the challenges and possibilities.
And so that will fully be completed
by Tuesday of next week, and she'll
be doing a talk from here at the Poetry Center about her work
at that time.
So that's all the things that are coming up.
There are many more you can learn all about it
at the Poetry Center's calendar, and that's poetry.arizona.edu.
And that's the best place to find all the up
to date information about what's happening at the center.
Books are for sale.
And there are three of Tim's books,
and they're all excellent.
And so I hope you'll come and spend
some time with those afterwards.
We won't have a Q & A, so a great choice
is to go spend all the money you have on books,
and then come up and talk to Tim.
And I'm sure he'd be happy to sign them afterwards
after the reading.
It's my pleasure to introduce my friend who's
going to tell us a little bit more about Tim
and welcome him up to the podium.
And that's my friend Sara Sams who's
an associate professor here at the University of Arizona
and the author of the poetry collection Atom City.
A great friend of the Poetry Center, please help me
welcome Sara.
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