Hello, everybody.
Welcome.
How are you all?
Good, OK.
Can you guys hear me OK in the back?
You can.
OK, very good good.
I see the heads nodding, good, all right.
Glad everybody's here.
My name is Tyler.
I work here as the director at the Poetry Center,
we're thrilled to have a big crowd.
For this reading, everyone probably did something
this weekend related to books.
It was the book festival in Tucson
and so I'm glad that you're back.
It's nice to see a big crowd returning on a Thursday night
to the Poetry Center for what we do here on Thursday nights
with poets.
And we're thrilled to have our spring poet in residence John
Murillo here with us, which has been a great gift.
He'll be with us for a little bit of time,
he's going to work on some new work here in Tucson.
We'll talk about that in a second.
But a gift to have John for an extended period in Tucson
with us.
So gratitude.
There's a couple of things I want to say that are coming up.
So if you don't have one of these calendars,
they're a great thing to grab.
There are some of these that are around the corner
of this little gray wall right here as you exit out
those doors, they tell you what's
coming up at the Poetry Center.
So two things I want to share, one
is that coming up next in the reading series
on the 29th of March, there's a reading with the poet Saretta
Morgan, who has a first book coming out
and so we'll be helping celebrate that first book here
at the Poetry Center.
That's a Thursday night here 7:00 with Saretta.
There'll be a second event related to that, that's
going to be at MOCA Tucson.
Also free and that's at 6:00 the following night on Friday.
You can find these details about the second event on our website
or on MOCA'S website.
And there's a section of Saretta's book
that's a choral performance and so there'll
be four readers in a intersecting
braid that will perform that part of the book together.
So two opportunities coming up with Saretta and that's
again on Thursday the 29th here and then
the following day at MOCA Tucson.
Our visit from Brenda Lozano, the Mexican novelist
that we were so thrilled to have come on April 11th,
is not going to happen.
So if you were counting on that, we have to pivot.
We're going to reschedule that as best we can.
And we're still working with Brenda
on how we can adjust that and accommodate.
So if you're planning to come to that again, that reading is not
going to happen on April 11th, it'll
happen at a different time.
It's for a good reason.
Her new book is coming out also in Spain
and the publisher wants to send her on a tour of Spain.
And I said, but Tucson, we can show you Tucson.
And she said, but Spain.
So we're going to find another time to get Brenda back here
and read at the Poetry Center which we're really
excited about.
All those details about what's coming up in this calendar
or on the Poetry Center's website.
Books are for sale after the reading and those are
available on my right over here, so I
hope you guys will come and pick up copies of John's two poetry
books.
And those will be immediately after the reading those
are for sale.
And John's happy to sign them.
So please avail yourself of those--
if you've got any extra bucks, that's
the thing to spend them on.