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Hey, everybody, welcome.

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How are you all?

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Woo!

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Woo!

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Good.

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More pointing to the sky.

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Poetry on a Thursday night.

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Glad you're here.

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Thanks for coming, everybody.

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My name is Tyler.

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I work here as the Director
at the Poetry Center.

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It's a great gift
to have a chance

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to do these on
Thursday nights, and it

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takes the support of many
people to make it happen.

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And so really thrilled to
be able to do this in Tucson

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and to welcome Tilsa Otta here
and Farid Matuk for the reading

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that's happening this evening.

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That's right.

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Round of applause.

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This reading is part of a
series that we do annually

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here at the Poetry
Center that we

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call the Hannelore
Quander-Rattee works

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in translation reading.

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And it's an annual program that
celebrates the life and work

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of Hannelore Quander-Rattee
by bringing practicing poets

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and translators to
participate and read in Tucson

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and be part of what's happening
here in the Tucson poetry scene.

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Hannelore herself
was a heartbeat

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of the poetry scene in Tucson.

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She was managing editor of the
Prickly Pear Tucson, a poetry

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quarterly.

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She co-directed the
Mosaic reading series

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and served on the Tucson
Poetry Festival committee

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to build those festival
adventures each time

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they happened each year.

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She worked on her own poems and
translated work into German,

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especially fond of the
work of Günter Eich.

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Her translation
of his radio play

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Tiger Jusuf was produced
on Arizona Public Radio

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and working with William
Pitt Root, who's over here.

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She also translated the
poems of Heinrich Böll.

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Hannelore's poems themselves
and translations appeared

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in the Sonora Review, Poetry
International, Star Web Paper,

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Prickly Pear Tucson, Brushfire,
Turquoise Tears, Nucari,

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Tucson Weekly, Fennel, Stock,
Laundromat, and others.

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So a round of applause for
Hannelore and her memory.

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[APPLAUSE]

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So to celebrate tonight,
Tilsa has traveled all the way

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from Mexico City to be with us
through flight delays, arriving

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in Tucson late last night.

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We're thrilled
that Tilsa is here.

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It's been a beautiful
couple of days just getting

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to know her a little bit.

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And she's here with her
translator, Farid Matuk,

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the most recent translator
of her work from Spanish.

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And their book together,
The Hormone of Darkness,

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was published this
year by Graywolf Press

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and is available for sale
on this table over here,

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if you're lucky
and in line first.

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Come and buy those.

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I'm really delighted
to also share

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that tonight is a collaboration
with Graywolf Press itself,

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one of our most important
and vital literary presses.

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Everyone's read
books by Graywolf?

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Good work, those hands, yeah.

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Very good.

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Executive Director and
Publisher Carmen Giménez

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is here to celebrate with us.

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Graywolf is celebrating their
50th anniversary of doing

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the work that they do, and it is
a beautiful legacy and worth its

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own applause to celebrate.

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[APPLAUSE]

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I think there's a
pretty good chance

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that we have most
of the poetry books

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that have been published in
those 50 years across the way.

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And it's a great gift to know
the work that Graywolf has done

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and that Graywolf continues to
do for writers and for words

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and for all of us.

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And so before I
welcome up Carmen

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to tell us more about
Farid and Tilsa,

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just a couple of other
quick housekeeping things.

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Two more readings coming
up in the next month.

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Three more readings in
this season, in the fall.

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And we're excited to tell you
more about the spring season,

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which we're just finishing up.

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And those materials will
come out in our marketing

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relatively soon.

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This November, the two readings
that are going to happen.

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November 7, there's a reading
from the poet Roger Reeves.

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We're so excited
about his visit.

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His book, Best Barbarian, was a
finalist for the National Book

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Award, and it was a winner of
the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

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So that's November 7, 7:00
o'clock back here at the Poetry

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Center, same space.

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Hope you'll come and join
us and participate and help

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welcome Roger to Tucson.

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And then I also want to mention
that on Thursday, November 21,

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we have a reading from the poet
Hala Alyan in collaboration

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with the Center for
Middle Eastern studies

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here at the
University of Arizona.

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We're really excited
about Hala's visit.

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So please come back.

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That's also at 7:00 o'clock
back here at the Poetry Center.

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So November 7,
November 21, you'll

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be all set on your Thursdays.

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At least two of
them in November.

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We'll see you here.

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I mentioned those
books are for sale.

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And just to say it again,
those books are for sale.

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So after the reading, you know
what to do and go find those.

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I know Tilsa and Farid
will be happy to sign them

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and to connect with you.

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And with that, I just want
to say it's my great pleasure

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to welcome back to Tucson,
but to also welcome up

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to this podium, Carmen Giménez,
and to celebrate her work

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as Executive Director
and Publisher of Graywolf

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Press, their 50 years
of operating most

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beautifully and doing the
incredible work that they

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do with the press.

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Giménez is the author of six
collections of poetry herself.

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And most recently, the
terrific book Be Recorder.

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Please help me welcome
Carmen Giménez to tell us

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more about Farid and Susan.

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[APPLAUSE]