WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.100 align:middle line:90% Hey, everybody, welcome. 00:00:01.100 --> 00:00:02.660 align:middle line:90% How are you all? 00:00:02.660 --> 00:00:03.260 align:middle line:90% Good? 00:00:03.260 --> 00:00:04.430 align:middle line:90% Woo! 00:00:04.430 --> 00:00:07.040 align:middle line:84% That's the kind of response I'm looking for. 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:08.900 align:middle line:90% Can you hear me OK in the back? 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:09.420 align:middle line:90% You can. 00:00:09.420 --> 00:00:09.920 align:middle line:90% Great. 00:00:09.920 --> 00:00:10.470 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:00:10.470 --> 00:00:10.970 align:middle line:90% Wonderful. 00:00:10.970 --> 00:00:11.690 align:middle line:90% Glad everybody's here. 00:00:11.690 --> 00:00:13.190 align:middle line:84% Thanks for coming so much to the Poetry Center 00:00:13.190 --> 00:00:14.787 align:middle line:84% on a Thursday night to hear poems. 00:00:14.787 --> 00:00:16.370 align:middle line:84% We're always excited to see folks here 00:00:16.370 --> 00:00:17.450 align:middle line:90% at the Poetry Center. 00:00:17.450 --> 00:00:18.290 align:middle line:90% My name is Tyler. 00:00:18.290 --> 00:00:20.120 align:middle line:84% I work here as the director at the Poetry Center. 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:21.830 align:middle line:84% And it's nice to see a lot of familiar faces 00:00:21.830 --> 00:00:22.790 align:middle line:90% and some new ones too. 00:00:22.790 --> 00:00:25.310 align:middle line:84% So gratitude to you guys for coming. 00:00:25.310 --> 00:00:26.990 align:middle line:84% I've got a couple of housekeeping things 00:00:26.990 --> 00:00:28.850 align:middle line:90% I want to speak about briefly. 00:00:28.850 --> 00:00:31.940 align:middle line:84% But before I do that, I'm really excited to introduce you 00:00:31.940 --> 00:00:35.570 align:middle line:84% to the newest staff member at the Poetry Center. 00:00:35.570 --> 00:00:37.625 align:middle line:84% So we've just made a new hire and I 00:00:37.625 --> 00:00:40.460 align:middle line:84% want to introduce my new friend Melissa Goodrich, who's 00:00:40.460 --> 00:00:43.485 align:middle line:90% over here waving her hand. 00:00:43.485 --> 00:00:45.110 align:middle line:84% And Melissa is going to help the Poetry 00:00:45.110 --> 00:00:46.922 align:middle line:84% Center with marketing and digital strategy 00:00:46.922 --> 00:00:47.630 align:middle line:90% and other things. 00:00:47.630 --> 00:00:50.270 align:middle line:84% So if you're learning about things happening at the Poetry 00:00:50.270 --> 00:00:51.892 align:middle line:84% Center in digital ways, it will be 00:00:51.892 --> 00:00:53.600 align:middle line:84% because of Melissa's good work, and we're 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:56.670 align:middle line:84% thrilled that she's here with us and joining the Poetry Center 00:00:56.670 --> 00:00:57.170 align:middle line:90% crew. 00:00:57.170 --> 00:00:59.000 align:middle line:84% So say hi to her after the reading 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:01.130 align:middle line:90% and introduce yourselves. 00:01:01.130 --> 00:01:03.800 align:middle line:84% There are lots of upcoming readings to just point to 00:01:03.800 --> 00:01:04.945 align:middle line:90% at the Poetry Center. 00:01:04.945 --> 00:01:06.320 align:middle line:84% You may know about these already. 00:01:06.320 --> 00:01:08.570 align:middle line:84% If you don't, some of them have been on the Powerpoint 00:01:08.570 --> 00:01:10.190 align:middle line:90% before the event started. 00:01:10.190 --> 00:01:12.800 align:middle line:84% This little calendar that's on the table around the corner 00:01:12.800 --> 00:01:14.540 align:middle line:84% here can tell you all about them. 00:01:14.540 --> 00:01:16.940 align:middle line:84% Next week on Thursday night, we have the poet 00:01:16.940 --> 00:01:20.210 align:middle line:84% and translator Sawako Nakayasu who's 00:01:20.210 --> 00:01:23.900 align:middle line:84% here as the keynote of the American Literary Translators 00:01:23.900 --> 00:01:27.140 align:middle line:84% Association Conference that's happening next week. 00:01:27.140 --> 00:01:29.630 align:middle line:84% How many of you know about that, ALTA? 00:01:29.630 --> 00:01:30.200 align:middle line:90% You do? 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:30.810 align:middle line:90% Good work. 00:01:30.810 --> 00:01:31.310 align:middle line:90% Great. 00:01:31.310 --> 00:01:32.360 align:middle line:90% If you don't, don't worry. 00:01:32.360 --> 00:01:34.360 align:middle line:84% There's still time to put your hand up next time 00:01:34.360 --> 00:01:36.440 align:middle line:90% when I ask about it. 00:01:36.440 --> 00:01:37.850 align:middle line:84% This is a conference that's going 00:01:37.850 --> 00:01:41.600 align:middle line:84% to bring something like 400 plus literary translators to Tucson. 00:01:41.600 --> 00:01:44.390 align:middle line:84% So if you can imagine all the ways in which language 00:01:44.390 --> 00:01:45.595 align:middle line:90% moves between-- 00:01:45.595 --> 00:01:47.720 align:middle line:84% literature moves between different languages, these 00:01:47.720 --> 00:01:49.387 align:middle line:84% are the people that are doing that work. 00:01:49.387 --> 00:01:52.040 align:middle line:84% And it's really, in a way, the kind of brain trust for this 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:55.460 align:middle line:84% in this country, 400 plus of them in Tucson, 00:01:55.460 --> 00:01:56.930 align:middle line:90% and Sawako will be the keynote. 00:01:56.930 --> 00:01:59.900 align:middle line:84% So her reading here on Thursday night will be of poetry. 00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:02.970 align:middle line:84% And then her talk at the conference 00:02:02.970 --> 00:02:05.580 align:middle line:84% will be about the practice of translation. 00:02:05.580 --> 00:02:07.770 align:middle line:84% There's a little card that our friends at ALTA 00:02:07.770 --> 00:02:11.190 align:middle line:84% have made that talk a little bit about the public facing events 00:02:11.190 --> 00:02:12.678 align:middle line:90% that are part of the conference. 00:02:12.678 --> 00:02:14.220 align:middle line:84% And so if you're interested in things 00:02:14.220 --> 00:02:16.720 align:middle line:84% that you can attend or be part of while all those people are 00:02:16.720 --> 00:02:18.862 align:middle line:84% in town, this will tell you some of those. 00:02:18.862 --> 00:02:20.820 align:middle line:84% I know there's lots of presses and other groups 00:02:20.820 --> 00:02:22.737 align:middle line:84% that are coming that are doing pop-up readings 00:02:22.737 --> 00:02:25.020 align:middle line:84% and other things at different locations around Tucson. 00:02:25.020 --> 00:02:26.520 align:middle line:84% And you can learn about those too, I think, 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:28.350 align:middle line:84% by keeping an ear to the ground and talking 00:02:28.350 --> 00:02:31.050 align:middle line:84% to people who are excited about the literary translation that's 00:02:31.050 --> 00:02:31.550 align:middle line:90% happening. 00:02:31.550 --> 00:02:33.870 align:middle line:84% And these are the official free events on this card. 00:02:33.870 --> 00:02:36.300 align:middle line:84% So that's also on that table as well. 00:02:36.300 --> 00:02:38.580 align:middle line:84% Right after that, on the 16th of November, 00:02:38.580 --> 00:02:41.280 align:middle line:84% we have the poet Marilyn Chin coming to read. 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:43.830 align:middle line:84% So both Sawako's reading on the ninth and Marilyn Chin's 00:02:43.830 --> 00:02:46.770 align:middle line:84% reading on the 16th are happening at 7:00, back here 00:02:46.770 --> 00:02:47.820 align:middle line:90% at the Poetry Center. 00:02:47.820 --> 00:02:50.490 align:middle line:84% And we'd love to see you back for those events 00:02:50.490 --> 00:02:52.710 align:middle line:90% and to join us as well. 00:02:52.710 --> 00:02:54.948 align:middle line:84% We have lots of books for sale after the reading. 00:02:54.948 --> 00:02:56.490 align:middle line:84% And so our friends from the bookstore 00:02:56.490 --> 00:02:58.890 align:middle line:84% would be happy to sell those to you when we're done. 00:02:58.890 --> 00:03:01.200 align:middle line:84% We're going to forego a sort of traditional Q & A. 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:03.390 align:middle line:84% But come up and meet Paul, and meet Adam, 00:03:03.390 --> 00:03:06.180 align:middle line:84% and have your book signed, and connect with us 00:03:06.180 --> 00:03:09.210 align:middle line:90% afterwards in that space. 00:03:09.210 --> 00:03:10.518 align:middle line:90% These are two excellent poets. 00:03:10.518 --> 00:03:12.060 align:middle line:84% And we are thrilled that they're here 00:03:12.060 --> 00:03:15.810 align:middle line:84% in Tucson, returning to Tucson, both of them in different ways. 00:03:15.810 --> 00:03:19.117 align:middle line:84% And to help introduce them, one of the people introducing 00:03:19.117 --> 00:03:21.450 align:middle line:84% will be me, and I'm going to introduce Adam in a second. 00:03:21.450 --> 00:03:23.700 align:middle line:84% But my colleague Paola Valenzuela 00:03:23.700 --> 00:03:25.020 align:middle line:90% will be the other introducer. 00:03:25.020 --> 00:03:27.570 align:middle line:84% And so Paola puts together all of our reading series events. 00:03:27.570 --> 00:03:29.970 align:middle line:84% And so when she gets up to introduce Paul, 00:03:29.970 --> 00:03:32.460 align:middle line:84% give an extra round of applause for Paola's greatness 00:03:32.460 --> 00:03:34.760 align:middle line:90% and brilliance.