WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.890 align:middle line:90% [CLAPPING] 00:00:00.890 --> 00:00:01.800 align:middle line:90% [INDISTINCT SPEECH] 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:02.480 align:middle line:90% Oh. 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:03.122 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:00:03.122 --> 00:00:03.830 align:middle line:90% Thank you, Tyler. 00:00:03.830 --> 00:00:09.050 align:middle line:84% And I want to first start with a little Terrain.org swag 00:00:09.050 --> 00:00:11.250 align:middle line:84% because don't know if you have a hat, Tyler. 00:00:11.250 --> 00:00:11.750 align:middle line:90% I don't. 00:00:11.750 --> 00:00:13.700 align:middle line:84% And I want to make sure that you have one. 00:00:13.700 --> 00:00:16.059 align:middle line:84% I only brought two of the hats, but I 00:00:16.059 --> 00:00:20.370 align:middle line:84% want Paola to come on up here and get one of these as well. 00:00:20.370 --> 00:00:23.030 align:middle line:90% So there you go. 00:00:23.030 --> 00:00:26.120 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:30.990 align:middle line:84% So you are required to wear those from now on forever. 00:00:30.990 --> 00:00:31.580 align:middle line:90% So-- 00:00:31.580 --> 00:00:32.080 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:00:32.080 --> 00:00:34.700 align:middle line:84% --I only took mine off for this evening, in fact. 00:00:34.700 --> 00:00:37.730 align:middle line:84% Tyler, really, thank you so much for having us and thanks 00:00:37.730 --> 00:00:39.465 align:middle line:90% all of you for coming out. 00:00:39.465 --> 00:00:41.840 align:middle line:84% I want to thank the wonderful staff of the Poetry Center. 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:44.510 align:middle line:84% I know that this is a remarkable place, right, 00:00:44.510 --> 00:00:46.970 align:middle line:84% and we're fortunate that we have it in our community. 00:00:46.970 --> 00:00:50.660 align:middle line:84% And it wasn't so long ago that I was 00:00:50.660 --> 00:00:53.930 align:middle line:84% a student at the University of Arizona in the MFA program, 00:00:53.930 --> 00:00:56.960 align:middle line:84% taking classes right up there, and I 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:00.050 align:middle line:84% think that was about 2007 because I was in the MFA 00:01:00.050 --> 00:01:02.610 align:middle line:84% when we moved over into this building. 00:01:02.610 --> 00:01:05.640 align:middle line:84% That was really a sacred time for me 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:08.190 align:middle line:84% personally to focus on literature 00:01:08.190 --> 00:01:12.360 align:middle line:84% in such a magnificent place, and it was a celebratory time 00:01:12.360 --> 00:01:15.720 align:middle line:84% too because I think of the new building that we had, 00:01:15.720 --> 00:01:17.640 align:middle line:84% the amazing faculty who we worked with, 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:20.070 align:middle line:84% some of whom we've lost recently unfortunately, 00:01:20.070 --> 00:01:24.300 align:middle line:84% my fellow students who were all amazing and-- 00:01:24.300 --> 00:01:27.240 align:middle line:84% not all of them-- annoying even which was kind of nice. 00:01:27.240 --> 00:01:29.700 align:middle line:84% And the English department basketball league 00:01:29.700 --> 00:01:33.780 align:middle line:84% in which I played every Friday afternoon until I 00:01:33.780 --> 00:01:35.700 align:middle line:90% pulled my hamstring anyway. 00:01:35.700 --> 00:01:40.080 align:middle line:84% So tonight, of course, is celebratory too not so much 00:01:40.080 --> 00:01:43.230 align:middle line:84% because you may see me jumping up and down following 00:01:43.230 --> 00:01:45.840 align:middle line:84% tonight's program because the hamstring won't let me 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:48.300 align:middle line:84% or jumping maybe to keep warm from this chilly weather 00:01:48.300 --> 00:01:51.030 align:middle line:84% although we don't have the doors open-- so we're OK-- 00:01:51.030 --> 00:01:54.000 align:middle line:84% but because Terrain.org which is the world's 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:56.400 align:middle line:84% first online literary journal of place 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:59.710 align:middle line:84% is celebrating 25 years of publishing as Tyler said. 00:01:59.710 --> 00:02:00.420 align:middle line:90% So thank you. 00:02:00.420 --> 00:02:02.580 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:02.580 --> 00:02:04.260 align:middle line:90% Yay! 00:02:04.260 --> 00:02:06.940 align:middle line:84% I feel like that is no small feat and worth celebrating, 00:02:06.940 --> 00:02:07.440 align:middle line:90% right? 00:02:07.440 --> 00:02:11.009 align:middle line:84% So here to help us celebrate, with their words 00:02:11.009 --> 00:02:14.880 align:middle line:84% and their wisdom and this evening, their winter warmth, 00:02:14.880 --> 00:02:18.690 align:middle line:84% are of course, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke and Derek 00:02:18.690 --> 00:02:21.420 align:middle line:84% Sheffield who is the omnipotent Derek Sheffield 00:02:21.420 --> 00:02:22.483 align:middle line:90% here this evening. 00:02:22.483 --> 00:02:24.150 align:middle line:84% Unfortunately, for those who don't know, 00:02:24.150 --> 00:02:26.760 align:middle line:84% Derek and I were texting through the afternoon 00:02:26.760 --> 00:02:30.540 align:middle line:84% as his flight was delayed and delayed and delayed and then 00:02:30.540 --> 00:02:31.650 align:middle line:90% finally canceled. 00:02:31.650 --> 00:02:33.510 align:middle line:84% That was Alaska Airlines, and I probably 00:02:33.510 --> 00:02:35.310 align:middle line:84% don't need to say more than that. 00:02:35.310 --> 00:02:38.692 align:middle line:84% And Julie Swarstad Johnson who's joining us as well. 00:02:38.692 --> 00:02:39.900 align:middle line:90% All Terrain.org contributors. 00:02:39.900 --> 00:02:41.730 align:middle line:84% So I'm so excited that you all are reading 00:02:41.730 --> 00:02:43.090 align:middle line:90% here with us this evening. 00:02:43.090 --> 00:02:44.620 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:02:44.620 --> 00:02:48.330 align:middle line:84% I will introduce Julie and Derek and Allison in that order 00:02:48.330 --> 00:02:50.880 align:middle line:84% before each of their readings this evening. 00:02:50.880 --> 00:02:53.550 align:middle line:84% And then, I will invite you to purchase their books. 00:02:53.550 --> 00:02:55.620 align:middle line:84% And we'll probably say that several more times, 00:02:55.620 --> 00:02:58.740 align:middle line:84% but that really helps out the poets as you may know, 00:02:58.740 --> 00:03:02.670 align:middle line:84% which they will gladly sign for you after tonight's reading. 00:03:02.670 --> 00:03:04.830 align:middle line:84% But first, I will remind you to pick up 00:03:04.830 --> 00:03:07.480 align:middle line:84% one of these amazing broadsides if you don't have those yet. 00:03:07.480 --> 00:03:10.230 align:middle line:84% Those were created by Juniper Moon and Dwell Press who 00:03:10.230 --> 00:03:11.410 align:middle line:90% does amazing work. 00:03:11.410 --> 00:03:14.460 align:middle line:84% So thank you, Juniper in the ethosphere 00:03:14.460 --> 00:03:16.440 align:middle line:84% or wherever you are this evening. 00:03:16.440 --> 00:03:19.640 align:middle line:84% They really are something, I think.