WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.800 align:middle line:90% Hello, everybody. 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:02.450 align:middle line:90% Welcome. 00:00:02.450 --> 00:00:03.890 align:middle line:90% How are you all? 00:00:03.890 --> 00:00:05.030 align:middle line:90% Good, OK. 00:00:05.030 --> 00:00:06.950 align:middle line:84% Can you guys hear me OK in the back? 00:00:06.950 --> 00:00:07.820 align:middle line:90% You can. 00:00:07.820 --> 00:00:09.060 align:middle line:90% OK, very good good. 00:00:09.060 --> 00:00:11.660 align:middle line:84% I see the heads nodding, good, all right. 00:00:11.660 --> 00:00:12.660 align:middle line:90% Glad everybody's here. 00:00:12.660 --> 00:00:13.440 align:middle line:90% My name is Tyler. 00:00:13.440 --> 00:00:14.930 align:middle line:84% I work here as the director at the Poetry Center, 00:00:14.930 --> 00:00:16.640 align:middle line:84% we're thrilled to have a big crowd. 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:19.460 align:middle line:84% For this reading, everyone probably did something 00:00:19.460 --> 00:00:21.200 align:middle line:90% this weekend related to books. 00:00:21.200 --> 00:00:23.900 align:middle line:84% It was the book festival in Tucson 00:00:23.900 --> 00:00:25.470 align:middle line:84% and so I'm glad that you're back. 00:00:25.470 --> 00:00:28.252 align:middle line:84% It's nice to see a big crowd returning on a Thursday night 00:00:28.252 --> 00:00:30.710 align:middle line:84% to the Poetry Center for what we do here on Thursday nights 00:00:30.710 --> 00:00:31.480 align:middle line:90% with poets. 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:33.980 align:middle line:84% And we're thrilled to have our spring poet in residence John 00:00:33.980 --> 00:00:36.820 align:middle line:84% Murillo here with us, which has been a great gift. 00:00:36.820 --> 00:00:38.570 align:middle line:84% He'll be with us for a little bit of time, 00:00:38.570 --> 00:00:41.720 align:middle line:84% he's going to work on some new work here in Tucson. 00:00:41.720 --> 00:00:43.200 align:middle line:84% We'll talk about that in a second. 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:46.130 align:middle line:84% But a gift to have John for an extended period in Tucson 00:00:46.130 --> 00:00:47.300 align:middle line:90% with us. 00:00:47.300 --> 00:00:48.320 align:middle line:90% So gratitude. 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:51.410 align:middle line:90% 00:00:51.410 --> 00:00:53.910 align:middle line:84% There's a couple of things I want to say that are coming up. 00:00:53.910 --> 00:00:55.760 align:middle line:84% So if you don't have one of these calendars, 00:00:55.760 --> 00:00:57.020 align:middle line:90% they're a great thing to grab. 00:00:57.020 --> 00:00:58.700 align:middle line:84% There are some of these that are around the corner 00:00:58.700 --> 00:01:01.170 align:middle line:84% of this little gray wall right here as you exit out 00:01:01.170 --> 00:01:02.670 align:middle line:84% those doors, they tell you what's 00:01:02.670 --> 00:01:04.019 align:middle line:90% coming up at the Poetry Center. 00:01:04.019 --> 00:01:05.700 align:middle line:84% So two things I want to share, one 00:01:05.700 --> 00:01:08.820 align:middle line:84% is that coming up next in the reading series 00:01:08.820 --> 00:01:12.420 align:middle line:84% on the 29th of March, there's a reading with the poet Saretta 00:01:12.420 --> 00:01:14.430 align:middle line:84% Morgan, who has a first book coming out 00:01:14.430 --> 00:01:16.680 align:middle line:84% and so we'll be helping celebrate that first book here 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:17.700 align:middle line:90% at the Poetry Center. 00:01:17.700 --> 00:01:21.630 align:middle line:84% That's a Thursday night here 7:00 with Saretta. 00:01:21.630 --> 00:01:24.510 align:middle line:84% There'll be a second event related to that, that's 00:01:24.510 --> 00:01:26.250 align:middle line:90% going to be at MOCA Tucson. 00:01:26.250 --> 00:01:31.000 align:middle line:84% Also free and that's at 6:00 the following night on Friday. 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:33.780 align:middle line:84% You can find these details about the second event on our website 00:01:33.780 --> 00:01:35.160 align:middle line:90% or on MOCA'S website. 00:01:35.160 --> 00:01:36.810 align:middle line:84% And there's a section of Saretta's book 00:01:36.810 --> 00:01:38.880 align:middle line:84% that's a choral performance and so there'll 00:01:38.880 --> 00:01:42.120 align:middle line:84% be four readers in a intersecting 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:45.520 align:middle line:84% braid that will perform that part of the book together. 00:01:45.520 --> 00:01:48.420 align:middle line:84% So two opportunities coming up with Saretta and that's 00:01:48.420 --> 00:01:51.000 align:middle line:84% again on Thursday the 29th here and then 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.420 align:middle line:84% the following day at MOCA Tucson. 00:01:54.420 --> 00:01:57.690 align:middle line:84% Our visit from Brenda Lozano, the Mexican novelist 00:01:57.690 --> 00:02:00.270 align:middle line:84% that we were so thrilled to have come on April 11th, 00:02:00.270 --> 00:02:02.110 align:middle line:90% is not going to happen. 00:02:02.110 --> 00:02:04.563 align:middle line:84% So if you were counting on that, we have to pivot. 00:02:04.563 --> 00:02:06.480 align:middle line:84% We're going to reschedule that as best we can. 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:07.938 align:middle line:84% And we're still working with Brenda 00:02:07.938 --> 00:02:10.713 align:middle line:84% on how we can adjust that and accommodate. 00:02:10.713 --> 00:02:13.380 align:middle line:84% So if you're planning to come to that again, that reading is not 00:02:13.380 --> 00:02:14.880 align:middle line:84% going to happen on April 11th, it'll 00:02:14.880 --> 00:02:16.470 align:middle line:90% happen at a different time. 00:02:16.470 --> 00:02:18.340 align:middle line:90% It's for a good reason. 00:02:18.340 --> 00:02:20.610 align:middle line:84% Her new book is coming out also in Spain 00:02:20.610 --> 00:02:24.060 align:middle line:84% and the publisher wants to send her on a tour of Spain. 00:02:24.060 --> 00:02:27.540 align:middle line:84% And I said, but Tucson, we can show you Tucson. 00:02:27.540 --> 00:02:29.580 align:middle line:90% And she said, but Spain. 00:02:29.580 --> 00:02:33.030 align:middle line:84% So we're going to find another time to get Brenda back here 00:02:33.030 --> 00:02:35.250 align:middle line:84% and read at the Poetry Center which we're really 00:02:35.250 --> 00:02:35.880 align:middle line:90% excited about. 00:02:35.880 --> 00:02:39.360 align:middle line:84% All those details about what's coming up in this calendar 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:42.450 align:middle line:84% or on the Poetry Center's website. 00:02:42.450 --> 00:02:44.790 align:middle line:84% Books are for sale after the reading and those are 00:02:44.790 --> 00:02:46.530 align:middle line:84% available on my right over here, so I 00:02:46.530 --> 00:02:49.350 align:middle line:84% hope you guys will come and pick up copies of John's two poetry 00:02:49.350 --> 00:02:49.902 align:middle line:90% books. 00:02:49.902 --> 00:02:52.110 align:middle line:84% And those will be immediately after the reading those 00:02:52.110 --> 00:02:52.652 align:middle line:90% are for sale. 00:02:52.652 --> 00:02:54.000 align:middle line:90% And John's happy to sign them. 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.418 align:middle line:84% So please avail yourself of those-- 00:02:56.418 --> 00:02:57.960 align:middle line:84% if you've got any extra bucks, that's 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:00.230 align:middle line:90% the thing to spend them on.