WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.200 align:middle line:90% Hello, everybody. 00:00:01.200 --> 00:00:02.450 align:middle line:90% How are you all? 00:00:02.450 --> 00:00:03.980 align:middle line:90% Good. 00:00:03.980 --> 00:00:05.150 align:middle line:90% It's a quiet Tuesday. 00:00:05.150 --> 00:00:06.410 align:middle line:90% How is everybody? 00:00:06.410 --> 00:00:07.850 align:middle line:90% You're here! 00:00:07.850 --> 00:00:10.040 align:middle line:90% You're choosing poetry. 00:00:10.040 --> 00:00:12.230 align:middle line:90% You're my kind of people. 00:00:12.230 --> 00:00:14.360 align:middle line:84% Thanks for being here on a Tuesday. 00:00:14.360 --> 00:00:18.140 align:middle line:84% And this is our last reading of the fall season. 00:00:18.140 --> 00:00:20.810 align:middle line:84% So you're helping us with an exclamation point at the end 00:00:20.810 --> 00:00:22.430 align:middle line:90% of a beautiful sentence. 00:00:22.430 --> 00:00:24.380 align:middle line:84% And we're grateful for that and really 00:00:24.380 --> 00:00:28.100 align:middle line:84% excited to have Charif Shanahan with us, 00:00:28.100 --> 00:00:30.830 align:middle line:84% behind his beautiful new book and all of his poems. 00:00:30.830 --> 00:00:34.430 align:middle line:84% And so we'll hear more from Charif, of course, shortly, 00:00:34.430 --> 00:00:36.330 align:middle line:90% in an introduction coming. 00:00:36.330 --> 00:00:37.140 align:middle line:90% My name is Tyler. 00:00:37.140 --> 00:00:39.182 align:middle line:84% I work here as the director at the Poetry Center. 00:00:39.182 --> 00:00:41.880 align:middle line:84% My sole job tonight is to tell you just a few things. 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:44.330 align:middle line:84% One is those books that I mentioned that are beautiful, 00:00:44.330 --> 00:00:45.650 align:middle line:90% they're all for sale. 00:00:45.650 --> 00:00:48.890 align:middle line:84% And there are people you love who need presents, 00:00:48.890 --> 00:00:50.540 align:middle line:84% and you should buy them this book. 00:00:50.540 --> 00:00:52.460 align:middle line:84% And maybe that person is yourself. 00:00:52.460 --> 00:00:54.770 align:middle line:84% So avail yourselves of those books afterwards. 00:00:54.770 --> 00:00:56.900 align:middle line:84% I know Charif would be happy to sign them. 00:00:56.900 --> 00:00:58.610 align:middle line:84% And I want to just tell you very-- 00:00:58.610 --> 00:00:59.940 align:middle line:90% well, I want to say this too. 00:00:59.940 --> 00:01:03.450 align:middle line:84% There are people who make these readings happen 00:01:03.450 --> 00:01:04.950 align:middle line:90% in semesterly ways here. 00:01:04.950 --> 00:01:07.080 align:middle line:84% And that's the staff at the Poetry Center. 00:01:07.080 --> 00:01:09.070 align:middle line:90% So it's such a team sport. 00:01:09.070 --> 00:01:10.625 align:middle line:84% And we have such a beautiful team. 00:01:10.625 --> 00:01:12.000 align:middle line:84% And there's a few representatives 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:13.330 align:middle line:90% of that group that are here. 00:01:13.330 --> 00:01:15.990 align:middle line:84% And so Bruno makes everything sound good. 00:01:15.990 --> 00:01:19.680 align:middle line:84% And so a round of applause for Bruno for all of his work. 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:21.870 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:01:21.870 --> 00:01:25.380 align:middle line:84% And then I get to work every day with Paola Valenzuela. 00:01:25.380 --> 00:01:27.510 align:middle line:90% And she's over here. 00:01:27.510 --> 00:01:29.580 align:middle line:84% And she makes so many good things 00:01:29.580 --> 00:01:30.780 align:middle line:90% happen at the Poetry Center. 00:01:30.780 --> 00:01:33.270 align:middle line:84% And it's such a joy to work with these people 00:01:33.270 --> 00:01:34.945 align:middle line:90% all the time in regular ways. 00:01:34.945 --> 00:01:36.570 align:middle line:84% So give them a high five afterwards too 00:01:36.570 --> 00:01:38.052 align:middle line:84% and tell them how great they are. 00:01:38.052 --> 00:01:40.260 align:middle line:84% The other thing I want to mention is that, of course, 00:01:40.260 --> 00:01:41.860 align:middle line:84% there's a spring season that's coming. 00:01:41.860 --> 00:01:44.250 align:middle line:84% And so you maybe saw some of those events that 00:01:44.250 --> 00:01:47.370 align:middle line:84% are happening coming up that were on the slideshow that 00:01:47.370 --> 00:01:48.810 align:middle line:90% was just behind me. 00:01:48.810 --> 00:01:51.450 align:middle line:84% But just to give you a taste of what's coming up in January, 00:01:51.450 --> 00:01:53.970 align:middle line:90% we'll come back on January 11. 00:01:53.970 --> 00:01:56.160 align:middle line:84% There's a reading-- the 25th anniversary 00:01:56.160 --> 00:01:59.070 align:middle line:84% reading from the magazine Terrain.org. 00:01:59.070 --> 00:02:01.500 align:middle line:84% And that's going to feature the poets Allison Adelle Hedge 00:02:01.500 --> 00:02:04.800 align:middle line:84% Coke, Derek Sheffield, and Julie Swarstad Johnson 00:02:04.800 --> 00:02:07.290 align:middle line:84% from the Poetry Center, which we're really excited about. 00:02:07.290 --> 00:02:10.020 align:middle line:84% On the 18th of January, we have a reading with the poet Edgar 00:02:10.020 --> 00:02:10.949 align:middle line:90% Kunz. 00:02:10.949 --> 00:02:14.010 align:middle line:84% And then on the 25th, we have the poet Brenda Hillman 00:02:14.010 --> 00:02:15.360 align:middle line:90% coming back to Tucson. 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:18.570 align:middle line:84% And on the 27th, on a Saturday for a matinee reading, 00:02:18.570 --> 00:02:19.842 align:middle line:90% we have the poet Robert Hass. 00:02:19.842 --> 00:02:21.300 align:middle line:84% So we're really excited about that. 00:02:21.300 --> 00:02:23.440 align:middle line:84% There'll be more coming in the rest of the season. 00:02:23.440 --> 00:02:25.565 align:middle line:84% The calendar will be announced in the coming weeks. 00:02:25.565 --> 00:02:27.960 align:middle line:84% So we want to make sure everybody knows about those. 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:31.080 align:middle line:84% Start to imagine those events here at the Poetry Center 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:32.680 align:middle line:90% and come join us. 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:35.220 align:middle line:84% I also want to mention many of these-- the readers who 00:02:35.220 --> 00:02:37.680 align:middle line:84% are coming in the spring are also teaching courses. 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:39.660 align:middle line:84% And so we're in a window right now where 00:02:39.660 --> 00:02:43.830 align:middle line:84% we have our financial aid window for the classes in the spring. 00:02:43.830 --> 00:02:46.410 align:middle line:84% So we want to make these classes available without a barrier 00:02:46.410 --> 00:02:48.083 align:middle line:84% to anybody who wants to take them. 00:02:48.083 --> 00:02:50.250 align:middle line:84% If you could use support to take one of the classes, 00:02:50.250 --> 00:02:51.960 align:middle line:90% this is a great time to apply. 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:53.730 align:middle line:90% It's very easy to apply. 00:02:53.730 --> 00:02:55.950 align:middle line:84% You just check a box that says, I need this, 00:02:55.950 --> 00:02:57.510 align:middle line:90% and then you're in. 00:02:57.510 --> 00:03:00.000 align:middle line:84% And then we are able to give away four tuitions 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:01.800 align:middle line:90% to the class of your choice. 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:05.390 align:middle line:84% So we'll pull four names out of everyone who submits interest, 00:03:05.390 --> 00:03:07.100 align:middle line:84% and we're really excited to support that 00:03:07.100 --> 00:03:09.770 align:middle line:84% and to bring people into those classes for the spring. 00:03:09.770 --> 00:03:12.870 align:middle line:84% General registration for those classes opens up on the 12th. 00:03:12.870 --> 00:03:14.870 align:middle line:84% So if you're interested in any of those courses, 00:03:14.870 --> 00:03:17.540 align:middle line:84% that would be the time for signing up. 00:03:17.540 --> 00:03:19.250 align:middle line:84% And some of them always go quick. 00:03:19.250 --> 00:03:21.920 align:middle line:90% So sign up if you're interested. 00:03:21.920 --> 00:03:26.120 align:middle line:84% And scholarship, those financial aid windows open right now. 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:27.320 align:middle line:90% Those are my updates. 00:03:27.320 --> 00:03:30.230 align:middle line:84% It's my pleasure to welcome up a great friend of the Poetry 00:03:30.230 --> 00:03:32.780 align:middle line:84% Center, a professor in creative writing here 00:03:32.780 --> 00:03:35.390 align:middle line:84% at the University of Arizona, the author of the poetry 00:03:35.390 --> 00:03:38.840 align:middle line:84% book The Real Horse and This Isa Nice Neighborhood, 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:42.463 align:middle line:84% and the artist's book Redolent, and a new book of translations 00:03:42.463 --> 00:03:43.880 align:middle line:84% that's coming out in the next year 00:03:43.880 --> 00:03:47.720 align:middle line:84% that we're very excited about, my colleague and friend Farid 00:03:47.720 --> 00:03:49.270 align:middle line:90% Matuk. 00:03:49.270 --> 00:03:50.000 align:middle line:90%