WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.910 align:middle line:84% I'm Mark Wunderlich, and I'm the Acting Director 00:00:02.910 --> 00:00:05.070 align:middle line:84% of the University of Arizona Poetry Center. 00:00:05.070 --> 00:00:08.460 align:middle line:84% And I want to thank you all for coming here tonight. 00:00:08.460 --> 00:00:10.200 align:middle line:90% We have a few announcements. 00:00:10.200 --> 00:00:12.270 align:middle line:84% Copies of Jane Hirshfield's books 00:00:12.270 --> 00:00:16.230 align:middle line:84% are available outside, compliments of ASUA Bookstore. 00:00:16.230 --> 00:00:20.070 align:middle line:84% And I'm sure she'd be happy to sign some after the reading. 00:00:20.070 --> 00:00:25.390 align:middle line:84% I would also like to announce that a limited edition fine 00:00:25.390 --> 00:00:29.490 align:middle line:84% press broadside of one of Jane Hirshfield's poems 00:00:29.490 --> 00:00:33.570 align:middle line:84% was printed by Mummy Mountain Press, Karla Elling being 00:00:33.570 --> 00:00:36.090 align:middle line:90% the printer and designer there. 00:00:36.090 --> 00:00:41.430 align:middle line:84% The paper is handmade paper made from clippings from Hirshfield's 00:00:41.430 --> 00:00:43.530 align:middle line:90% garden, actually. 00:00:43.530 --> 00:00:46.710 align:middle line:84% There are 20 available, and they are 00:00:46.710 --> 00:00:50.490 align:middle line:84% being sold for $20 as a benefit for the Poetry Center. 00:00:50.490 --> 00:00:55.050 align:middle line:84% And I want to thank Karla for her efforts and her artistry. 00:00:55.050 --> 00:00:59.640 align:middle line:84% If people would like to purchase other copies, 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:03.380 align:middle line:84% they may sign a form and get them at a later date 00:01:03.380 --> 00:01:05.700 align:middle line:90% when more are printed. 00:01:05.700 --> 00:01:08.790 align:middle line:84% The deadline for news items for the Poetry Center newsletter 00:01:08.790 --> 00:01:09.990 align:middle line:90% is this Thursday. 00:01:09.990 --> 00:01:12.900 align:middle line:84% And any announcements can be left at the Poetry Center 00:01:12.900 --> 00:01:15.703 align:middle line:84% or in our mailbox in the English department. 00:01:15.703 --> 00:01:18.120 align:middle line:84% And I'd also like to announce that Jane Hirshfield will be 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:21.580 align:middle line:84% speaking informally at the Poetry Center tomorrow at 11:00 00:01:21.580 --> 00:01:22.080 align:middle line:90% AM. 00:01:22.080 --> 00:01:25.540 align:middle line:84% And I want to invite you all to attend that. 00:01:25.540 --> 00:01:29.230 align:middle line:84% Our next reading will feature graduate students from the UA 00:01:29.230 --> 00:01:30.880 align:middle line:90% creative writing program. 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:33.820 align:middle line:84% And that reading will be here at Wednes-- 00:01:33.820 --> 00:01:38.340 align:middle line:84% on Wednesday at 8:00 PM in Modern Languages. 00:01:38.340 --> 00:01:41.010 align:middle line:84% Tonight's reading is sponsored by the Friends of the Poetry 00:01:41.010 --> 00:01:41.970 align:middle line:90% Center. 00:01:41.970 --> 00:01:45.300 align:middle line:84% In our efforts to create an independent program endowment 00:01:45.300 --> 00:01:47.580 align:middle line:84% to support our reading series, we 00:01:47.580 --> 00:01:51.180 align:middle line:84% are in the process of soliciting contributions from the public. 00:01:51.180 --> 00:01:52.890 align:middle line:84% A portion of these funds have gone 00:01:52.890 --> 00:01:55.300 align:middle line:84% to bring Jane Hirshfield here tonight. 00:01:55.300 --> 00:01:57.720 align:middle line:84% And I want to thank the friends of the Poetry Center 00:01:57.720 --> 00:02:01.200 align:middle line:84% for their generosity and for making this and other events 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:02.743 align:middle line:90% like it possible. 00:02:02.743 --> 00:02:05.160 align:middle line:84% If you would like to become a friend of the Poetry Center, 00:02:05.160 --> 00:02:08.880 align:middle line:84% please contact us at our offices. 00:02:08.880 --> 00:02:12.270 align:middle line:84% Introducing our visiting poet tonight is Jane Miller. 00:02:12.270 --> 00:02:14.070 align:middle line:84% Miller is the author of five books 00:02:14.070 --> 00:02:17.040 align:middle line:84% of poetry, the most recent of which 00:02:17.040 --> 00:02:21.510 align:middle line:84% is August Zero, published in 1993 by Copper Canyon Press, 00:02:21.510 --> 00:02:25.500 align:middle line:84% and one volume of essays entitled Working Time: Essays 00:02:25.500 --> 00:02:28.470 align:middle line:90% on Poetry, Culture, and Travel. 00:02:28.470 --> 00:02:31.570 align:middle line:84% She is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, 00:02:31.570 --> 00:02:34.320 align:middle line:84% including a Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Award, 00:02:34.320 --> 00:02:36.720 align:middle line:84% Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts 00:02:36.720 --> 00:02:40.800 align:middle line:84% fellowships, and the Western States Book Award for Poetry. 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:43.710 align:middle line:84% She's a member of the faculty at the University of Arizona 00:02:43.710 --> 00:02:45.810 align:middle line:90% and teaches in the MFA program. 00:02:45.810 --> 00:02:47.670 align:middle line:90% Jane Miller. 00:02:47.670 --> 00:02:51.020 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:51.020 --> 00:02:54.002 align:middle line:90%