Welcome Arthur, we are so pleased to have you join us to celebrate for our 50th Anniversary as our guest speaker at the Launch in Roanoke Virginia

Arthur Sze is a poet, a translator, and an editor. He is the author of a dozen books of poetry, including Into the Hush (Copper Canyon Press, 2025); The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2024); Sight Lines (Copper Canyon Press, 2019); Compass Rose (Copper Canyon Press, 2014); and The Ginkgo Light (Copper Canyon Press, 2009).

Sze attended MIT before transferring to UC Berkeley, where he earned a BA in poetry in 1972. His poetry has been translated into 15 languages and published in leading journals such as The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, and major anthologies.

Sze is professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts, former Santa Fe Poet Laureate, and, as of September 2025, the first Asian American U.S. Poet Laureate.

AI can complete virtually any cognitive task, at least as well as a human, and is seeping into all aspects of our lives, including search engines, virtual assistants, language models, strategy games, drone systems, medical advancements, Robotics, autonomous vehicles, and more. And the question is…How will it affect us in the here and now as well as the future? I am digging deeper into the field of AI with two guests today, all from different careers who have used these AI tools, and hear their experiences with AI.

My guests are;

Skip Brown, Musician and owner Final Track Studios, Artemis Speaks co-producer
Susan Saandholland, conceptual artist and writer

Katryn Broadoak is a poet, mother, and breast cancer survivor whose life has carried her across five countries and countless inner landscapes. She speaks English and French (and a little Spanish if you’re patient). A lifelong seeker, she writes from the space between faith and freedom. Once steeped in organised religion, her path has evolved into something more eclectic and earth-centered, rooted in reverence for what’s real and unseen alike (with a bit of a penchant for casual blasphemy from time to time). Her poetry is an offering for anyone who’s ever felt lost — a lantern to light the way toward the other side of something hard, something holy, or both.