WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.740 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.740 --> 00:00:05.010 align:middle line:90% Can the people in the hall hear? 00:00:05.010 --> 00:00:07.290 align:middle line:90% Ask if they can hear. 00:00:07.290 --> 00:00:09.180 align:middle line:90% Can they hear? 00:00:09.180 --> 00:00:11.370 align:middle line:84% There's still some more room on the floor behind me 00:00:11.370 --> 00:00:14.340 align:middle line:84% if you want to come on up here through either of the side 00:00:14.340 --> 00:00:16.680 align:middle line:90% doors. 00:00:16.680 --> 00:00:18.540 align:middle line:90% I see an empty chair down there. 00:00:18.540 --> 00:00:22.035 align:middle line:90% [CROWD LAUGHTER] 00:00:22.035 --> 00:00:23.160 align:middle line:90% And there's one right here. 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:26.190 align:middle line:90% 00:00:26.190 --> 00:00:30.180 align:middle line:84% And there's one over there on the aisle. 00:00:30.180 --> 00:00:33.696 align:middle line:90% So-- [LAUGHTER] 00:00:33.696 --> 00:00:44.520 align:middle line:90% 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:48.390 align:middle line:84% Tomorrow afternoon, Miss Rich will 00:00:48.390 --> 00:00:51.750 align:middle line:84% be speaking to students at an open session-- 00:00:51.750 --> 00:00:53.715 align:middle line:84% students and all interested people-- 00:00:53.715 --> 00:00:58.940 align:middle line:84% at an open session at 3:30 in the student union terrace. 00:00:58.940 --> 00:01:02.430 align:middle line:84% Not the student union-- the student union junior ballroom. 00:01:02.430 --> 00:01:05.190 align:middle line:84% Junior ballroom, on the second level of the student union. 00:01:05.190 --> 00:01:10.080 align:middle line:90% 00:01:10.080 --> 00:01:13.380 align:middle line:84% Our next reading will be in this auditorium a week from tonight. 00:01:13.380 --> 00:01:15.885 align:middle line:84% Ishmael Reed will be the visiting poet and novelist. 00:01:15.885 --> 00:01:18.065 align:middle line:90% He'll read for us. 00:01:18.065 --> 00:01:19.440 align:middle line:84% And I would like to announce now, 00:01:19.440 --> 00:01:20.982 align:middle line:84% and I'll announce it again next week, 00:01:20.982 --> 00:01:23.610 align:middle line:84% that he also will have an open session with students the day 00:01:23.610 --> 00:01:25.230 align:middle line:90% following his reading. 00:01:25.230 --> 00:01:29.160 align:middle line:84% And his session will be at the Poetry Center on Thursday 00:01:29.160 --> 00:01:34.320 align:middle line:90% morning from 11:00 to 12:00. 00:01:34.320 --> 00:01:35.520 align:middle line:90% | see another empty seat. 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:38.097 align:middle line:90% 00:01:38.097 --> 00:01:39.180 align:middle line:90% Right in the middle there. 00:01:39.180 --> 00:01:39.930 align:middle line:90% It's the same one? 00:01:39.930 --> 00:01:45.690 align:middle line:90% 00:01:45.690 --> 00:01:48.600 align:middle line:84% Oh, I hope they don't send the fire marshal in. 00:01:48.600 --> 00:01:51.810 align:middle line:90% 00:01:51.810 --> 00:01:57.570 align:middle line:84% I'd also like to announce a very special reading to benefit 00:01:57.570 --> 00:01:59.220 align:middle line:90% the Tucson AIDS Project. 00:01:59.220 --> 00:02:03.300 align:middle line:84% It would be a benefit reading of poetry and fiction sponsored 00:02:03.300 --> 00:02:07.320 align:middle line:84% by OutLoud, a group of lesbian, gay, and bisexual graduate 00:02:07.320 --> 00:02:08.400 align:middle line:90% students. 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:12.300 align:middle line:84% The readers will be Forrest Ashby, Joy Harjo, 00:02:12.300 --> 00:02:16.620 align:middle line:84% Carolyn Kizer, Terry McMillan and Boyer Rickel. 00:02:16.620 --> 00:02:20.190 align:middle line:84% And that will take place this Saturday evening, the 25th, 00:02:20.190 --> 00:02:24.240 align:middle line:84% at 8 o'clock in the Orts Space Theater, which 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:27.810 align:middle line:84% is located at 330 East 7th Street, 00:02:27.810 --> 00:02:30.930 align:middle line:90% between 4th and 5th Avenues. 00:02:30.930 --> 00:02:35.520 align:middle line:84% Because this is a benefit, they're asking donation of $5. 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:37.350 align:middle line:84% But if you cannot subscribe that much, 00:02:37.350 --> 00:02:39.330 align:middle line:84% come anyway and give what you can. 00:02:39.330 --> 00:02:45.140 align:middle line:90% 00:02:45.140 --> 00:02:47.290 align:middle line:84% We have added another reading to our schedule. 00:02:47.290 --> 00:02:49.090 align:middle line:84% And I brought some of the flyers, 00:02:49.090 --> 00:02:51.970 align:middle line:84% and they'll be out on the refreshment table. 00:02:51.970 --> 00:02:54.820 align:middle line:84% Refreshments will be in the breezeway this evening, 00:02:54.820 --> 00:02:58.060 align:middle line:84% and books will be for sale in the hall. 00:02:58.060 --> 00:03:00.820 align:middle line:90% At a reduced rate, by the way. 00:03:00.820 --> 00:03:03.250 align:middle line:84% We are co-sponsoring, with Department 00:03:03.250 --> 00:03:06.640 align:middle line:84% of French and Italian, a bilingual reading 00:03:06.640 --> 00:03:10.630 align:middle line:84% by Paolo Valesio on Sunday afternoon, April the 2nd, 00:03:10.630 --> 00:03:13.390 align:middle line:90% on the Poetry Center South Lawn. 00:03:13.390 --> 00:03:17.077 align:middle line:84% If you regularly get our mail, don't pick up one tonight, 00:03:17.077 --> 00:03:19.660 align:middle line:84% because there will be-- if you have an English department box, 00:03:19.660 --> 00:03:20.860 align:middle line:90% one will be put in your box. 00:03:20.860 --> 00:03:25.330 align:middle line:90% 00:03:25.330 --> 00:03:27.880 align:middle line:84% I promised Adrienne that I do short introductions, 00:03:27.880 --> 00:03:30.335 align:middle line:84% but I didn't tell her that I do long announcements. 00:03:30.335 --> 00:03:33.588 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:03:33.588 --> 00:03:36.970 align:middle line:90% 00:03:36.970 --> 00:03:39.910 align:middle line:84% Many of you were handed a little pink flyer as you came in. 00:03:39.910 --> 00:03:43.830 align:middle line:84% We are very sorry that there was not enough for everyone. 00:03:43.830 --> 00:03:46.780 align:middle line:84% A student organization has been formed 00:03:46.780 --> 00:03:49.916 align:middle line:90% to help save the Poetry Center. 00:03:49.916 --> 00:03:53.262 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:53.262 --> 00:03:57.100 align:middle line:90% 00:03:57.100 --> 00:03:59.515 align:middle line:84% If you didn't get a flyer, perhaps you'll 00:03:59.515 --> 00:04:00.640 align:middle line:90% share it with your friends. 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:01.390 align:middle line:90% Have you got more? 00:04:01.390 --> 00:04:02.200 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:04:02.200 --> 00:04:04.180 align:middle line:84% OK, come on down the aisles and pass them out 00:04:04.180 --> 00:04:04.930 align:middle line:90% while I'm talking. 00:04:04.930 --> 00:04:08.000 align:middle line:90% 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:11.240 align:middle line:84% This is a request for you to join this committee, 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:14.300 align:middle line:84% or to assist this committee by writing letters of support 00:04:14.300 --> 00:04:15.830 align:middle line:90% for the Poetry Center. 00:04:15.830 --> 00:04:19.450 align:middle line:84% Please, positive letters of support for the Poetry Center. 00:04:19.450 --> 00:04:22.370 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:04:22.370 --> 00:04:23.810 align:middle line:84% The little house that we are being 00:04:23.810 --> 00:04:26.900 align:middle line:84% moved into when the Poetry Center 00:04:26.900 --> 00:04:29.990 align:middle line:90% Library is destroyed in June-- 00:04:29.990 --> 00:04:33.020 align:middle line:84% just the library building, not the library-- 00:04:33.020 --> 00:04:36.530 align:middle line:84% is one and a half blocks north of Speedway 00:04:36.530 --> 00:04:39.920 align:middle line:84% on Cherry, which will take us three and a half blocks further 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:41.900 align:middle line:90% away from this building. 00:04:41.900 --> 00:04:44.670 align:middle line:84% Most of our users come from this building. 00:04:44.670 --> 00:04:48.260 align:middle line:84% So it will not be as convenient for you. 00:04:48.260 --> 00:04:52.370 align:middle line:84% One of the more important problems of that move 00:04:52.370 --> 00:04:56.930 align:middle line:84% is that because our collection has grown so rapidly, 00:04:56.930 --> 00:04:58.610 align:middle line:84% we've not been able to shelve all 00:04:58.610 --> 00:05:02.570 align:middle line:84% the books in our current space for a long time. 00:05:02.570 --> 00:05:05.570 align:middle line:84% The little house is a little bit larger than where we are, 00:05:05.570 --> 00:05:08.270 align:middle line:84% but the extra square footage is mostly taken up 00:05:08.270 --> 00:05:10.820 align:middle line:90% by closets and the kitchen. 00:05:10.820 --> 00:05:13.370 align:middle line:84% And we don't have a kitchen where we are now. 00:05:13.370 --> 00:05:19.100 align:middle line:84% And there is less wall space to put the bookshelves. 00:05:19.100 --> 00:05:23.360 align:middle line:84% So we are putting all periodicals before 1988 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.750 align:middle line:84% into storage until we have a new home. 00:05:26.750 --> 00:05:32.120 align:middle line:84% And we may have to put up to 3/4 of the books. 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:36.410 align:middle line:84% We'll know a little better, by the end of next week, just how 00:05:36.410 --> 00:05:38.750 align:middle line:90% much shelf space we have. 00:05:38.750 --> 00:05:41.048 align:middle line:84% But we don't want to be crowded, because we've 00:05:41.048 --> 00:05:42.590 align:middle line:84% been so crowded now that no one could 00:05:42.590 --> 00:05:44.780 align:middle line:84% see all of the wonderful treasures that 00:05:44.780 --> 00:05:46.040 align:middle line:90% are coming in every day. 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:48.950 align:middle line:90% 00:05:48.950 --> 00:05:52.760 align:middle line:84% I promise that as long as I'm there, 00:05:52.760 --> 00:05:54.660 align:middle line:84% if there's a book in storage that you want, 00:05:54.660 --> 00:05:56.225 align:middle line:84% I'll get it for you within 48 hours. 00:05:56.225 --> 00:05:58.860 align:middle line:90% 00:05:58.860 --> 00:06:02.480 align:middle line:84% But it may take us that long to get a book for you. 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:05.070 align:middle line:84% Many of the books are not frequently used, 00:06:05.070 --> 00:06:06.870 align:middle line:90% but they are important. 00:06:06.870 --> 00:06:09.110 align:middle line:84% It is important that we have them. 00:06:09.110 --> 00:06:12.260 align:middle line:84% It is important that we have a new home 00:06:12.260 --> 00:06:15.950 align:middle line:84% for this special collection for your use. 00:06:15.950 --> 00:06:18.152 align:middle line:84% And we appreciate your support with letters. 00:06:18.152 --> 00:06:20.360 align:middle line:84% Of course, we would even more appreciate your support 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:23.270 align:middle line:90% with money. 00:06:23.270 --> 00:06:26.990 align:middle line:84% There are three people in this auditorium tonight 00:06:26.990 --> 00:06:31.550 align:middle line:84% who have donated a total of $1,700 00:06:31.550 --> 00:06:34.000 align:middle line:90% to begin the new building fund. 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.952 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:06:37.952 --> 00:06:40.430 align:middle line:90% 00:06:40.430 --> 00:06:42.770 align:middle line:84% I would like to make public recognition of them, 00:06:42.770 --> 00:06:45.620 align:middle line:90% but they have asked not. 00:06:45.620 --> 00:06:48.480 align:middle line:90% So I will honor their request. 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:51.920 align:middle line:84% We had a donation given in November. 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:55.640 align:middle line:84% And the donor said, I will give you $1,000 00:06:55.640 --> 00:06:58.910 align:middle line:84% only if it goes for building fund. 00:06:58.910 --> 00:07:01.760 align:middle line:84% And we have not been authorized at that time 00:07:01.760 --> 00:07:04.790 align:middle line:90% to solicit for a building fund. 00:07:04.790 --> 00:07:08.570 align:middle line:84% So we had to get special permission to start a new fund. 00:07:08.570 --> 00:07:10.282 align:middle line:90% Now, we can! 00:07:10.282 --> 00:07:12.740 align:middle line:84% Of course, we also need money for the friends of the Poetry 00:07:12.740 --> 00:07:16.580 align:middle line:84% Center, but this is not a fundraising evening. 00:07:16.580 --> 00:07:17.090 align:middle line:90% I'm sorry. 00:07:17.090 --> 00:07:20.420 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHING] I'll shut up. 00:07:20.420 --> 00:07:22.970 align:middle line:84% I do not need to introduce Adrienne Rich to you. 00:07:22.970 --> 00:07:23.870 align:middle line:90% You know who she is. 00:07:23.870 --> 00:07:28.040 align:middle line:84% You know why we have invited her for her wonderful work 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:32.990 align:middle line:84% in poetry and in prose, and for her work as an activist. 00:07:32.990 --> 00:07:36.540 align:middle line:84% And I'm not going to give you a recitation of her book titles. 00:07:36.540 --> 00:07:38.960 align:middle line:90% I just want to get her up here. 00:07:38.960 --> 00:07:39.980 align:middle line:90% Adrienne Rich. 00:07:39.980 --> 00:07:44.702 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:07:44.702 --> 00:08:06.000 align:middle line:90%