WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.830 align:middle line:90% Hello, everybody. 00:00:00.830 --> 00:00:01.670 align:middle line:90% Welcome. 00:00:01.670 --> 00:00:03.150 align:middle line:90% How are you all? 00:00:03.150 --> 00:00:04.790 align:middle line:90% Applause, great. 00:00:04.790 --> 00:00:06.200 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:07.850 align:middle line:90% Can you hear me in the back? 00:00:07.850 --> 00:00:08.870 align:middle line:90% You can. 00:00:08.870 --> 00:00:09.950 align:middle line:90% Beautiful thumbs. 00:00:09.950 --> 00:00:11.300 align:middle line:90% Nice to see them. 00:00:11.300 --> 00:00:14.510 align:middle line:84% Thanks for braving clouds in Tucson. 00:00:14.510 --> 00:00:16.790 align:middle line:84% Sometimes, that's a thing and you're brave to be here. 00:00:16.790 --> 00:00:18.830 align:middle line:84% You've made a great choice with your Thursday night, 00:00:18.830 --> 00:00:20.240 align:middle line:90% and I want to commend you on it. 00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:21.050 align:middle line:90% My name is Tyler. 00:00:21.050 --> 00:00:23.510 align:middle line:84% I work here as the Director at the Poetry Center. 00:00:23.510 --> 00:00:25.040 align:middle line:84% And lovely to have a big group here 00:00:25.040 --> 00:00:28.550 align:middle line:84% to welcome Marilyn Chin to Tucson, back to Tucson. 00:00:28.550 --> 00:00:31.070 align:middle line:84% We were realizing that it has been-- 00:00:31.070 --> 00:00:32.570 align:middle line:90% it's been 27 years. 00:00:32.570 --> 00:00:35.630 align:middle line:84% And so it's a delight to have Marilyn back in Tucson 00:00:35.630 --> 00:00:38.000 align:middle line:90% to read at the Poetry Center-- 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:39.440 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:41.120 align:middle line:84% --from her very terrific new book. 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:42.830 align:middle line:84% And so one of the things I want to say 00:00:42.830 --> 00:00:45.830 align:middle line:84% is that books are for sale after the reading including 00:00:45.830 --> 00:00:47.240 align:middle line:90% the newest one, Sage. 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:49.010 align:middle line:84% And those are over at the book sale table, 00:00:49.010 --> 00:00:51.140 align:middle line:84% and they're happy to vend those books to you. 00:00:51.140 --> 00:00:53.720 align:middle line:84% If you've got extra money, that's a great place to put it. 00:00:53.720 --> 00:00:55.490 align:middle line:84% It's the holiday season, people you 00:00:55.490 --> 00:00:57.170 align:middle line:90% love need to read more poems. 00:00:57.170 --> 00:00:59.940 align:middle line:84% This is one way to take care of two things at once 00:00:59.940 --> 00:01:02.723 align:middle line:84% and support poets at the same time. 00:01:02.723 --> 00:01:04.890 align:middle line:84% I want to point out just a couple of things that are 00:01:04.890 --> 00:01:06.450 align:middle line:90% coming up at the Poetry Center. 00:01:06.450 --> 00:01:08.100 align:middle line:84% We have one last reading this fall, 00:01:08.100 --> 00:01:10.212 align:middle line:90% and that's on December 5th. 00:01:10.212 --> 00:01:11.670 align:middle line:84% And the thing to know about that is 00:01:11.670 --> 00:01:14.820 align:middle line:84% that December 5th is a Tuesday and not a Thursday. 00:01:14.820 --> 00:01:16.560 align:middle line:84% So our next reading and our last reading 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:18.510 align:middle line:84% is on a Tuesday night, 7 o'clock, 00:01:18.510 --> 00:01:19.920 align:middle line:90% back here at the Poetry Center. 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:22.140 align:middle line:84% It's a terrific poet named Charif Shanahan, who 00:01:22.140 --> 00:01:24.180 align:middle line:84% will be here behind his most recent book, 00:01:24.180 --> 00:01:26.700 align:middle line:84% Trace Evidence, which was longlisted for the National 00:01:26.700 --> 00:01:27.990 align:middle line:90% Book Award this year. 00:01:27.990 --> 00:01:30.660 align:middle line:84% So we're really excited that Charif is coming to Tucson. 00:01:30.660 --> 00:01:32.010 align:middle line:90% So come back for that. 00:01:32.010 --> 00:01:34.470 align:middle line:84% Charif is also teaching a class at the Poetry Center, 00:01:34.470 --> 00:01:36.518 align:middle line:84% and that class still has a couple spots left. 00:01:36.518 --> 00:01:38.310 align:middle line:84% So if you're interested in taking a class-- 00:01:38.310 --> 00:01:40.230 align:middle line:84% some of you might have taken Marilyn's class 00:01:40.230 --> 00:01:41.655 align:middle line:90% that was here last night. 00:01:41.655 --> 00:01:42.780 align:middle line:90% Charif is teaching as well. 00:01:42.780 --> 00:01:46.950 align:middle line:84% And the class's title is Locating the Self: 00:01:46.950 --> 00:01:49.140 align:middle line:90% Intertextual Poetic Strategies. 00:01:49.140 --> 00:01:52.950 align:middle line:84% And it's about relationships between poets and precursors. 00:01:52.950 --> 00:01:54.900 align:middle line:84% So a poet that maybe comes before 00:01:54.900 --> 00:01:58.470 align:middle line:84% and then a contemporary poet that arises from that work-- 00:01:58.470 --> 00:02:00.540 align:middle line:84% and thinking about your own work in relationship. 00:02:00.540 --> 00:02:03.290 align:middle line:84% So all of those details you can find out more about 00:02:03.290 --> 00:02:04.940 align:middle line:84% in the handy dandy calendar, which 00:02:04.940 --> 00:02:07.163 align:middle line:84% is good for about three or four more weeks. 00:02:07.163 --> 00:02:09.080 align:middle line:84% And then there will be a new one to replace it 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:11.810 align:middle line:84% with a lot of really exciting things coming up this spring. 00:02:11.810 --> 00:02:13.742 align:middle line:84% And we're really pleased for that season, 00:02:13.742 --> 00:02:15.950 align:middle line:84% and we'll be telling you more about that in the weeks 00:02:15.950 --> 00:02:17.150 align:middle line:90% to come. 00:02:17.150 --> 00:02:19.460 align:middle line:84% It's a great pleasure for me to welcome up 00:02:19.460 --> 00:02:21.800 align:middle line:84% a colleague and a friend who will introduce Marilyn. 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:25.340 align:middle line:84% And that is the poet, and professor, and essayist Susan 00:02:25.340 --> 00:02:26.720 align:middle line:90% Briante. 00:02:26.720 --> 00:02:28.460 align:middle line:84% As a Professor of creative writing 00:02:28.460 --> 00:02:30.710 align:middle line:84% in the English department here at the U of A, 00:02:30.710 --> 00:02:32.690 align:middle line:84% Susan is also the faculty liaison. 00:02:32.690 --> 00:02:35.540 align:middle line:84% And has done a lot of work building up the UA's Field 00:02:35.540 --> 00:02:38.240 align:middle line:84% Studies program, which sends graduate students 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:41.540 align:middle line:84% into the field to do creative work and then report back. 00:02:41.540 --> 00:02:43.340 align:middle line:90% It's a tremendous program. 00:02:43.340 --> 00:02:45.800 align:middle line:84% Her most recent book is an essay collection, 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:47.960 align:middle line:84% a nonfiction title called Defacing the Monument, 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:49.370 align:middle line:90% and it's from Noemi Press. 00:02:49.370 --> 00:02:51.770 align:middle line:84% Please help welcome my friend Susan Briante. 00:02:51.770 --> 00:02:55.120 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:02.000 align:middle line:90%