Hi, everyone.
Welcome to the Poetry Center.
We're very excited for tonight's reading
with Lehua Taitano and Bojan Louis,
who will be reading for about 20 minutes, each of them.
We're going to have Lehua read first,
and then Bojan will read after.
Before we begin, I just want to--
I have a few announcements, one of which is, I'm Diana Delgado.
I'm the literary director here at the Poetry Center.
Yay.
[LAUGHTER]
One year down.
[APPLAUSE]
[LAUGHS] I write, June, and then desert took over.
So a few things.
This is for those of you if you're looking for something
to do in the Arizona heat.
Wednesday, July 31, we have our last summer social,
which is a Whitman summer social.
And it's going to be poetry selections from the Arizona
Friends of Chamber Music.
And that's going to be over at the Copper
Room at Hotel Congress, Wednesday, July 31 at 5:30.
So come by.
And then the other thing I wanted to mention
is that we offer classes and workshops here at the Poetry
Center.
I'm not sure if everyone knows that.
But every season, we have at least four to five classes
that we offer.
And we also offer scholarships.
So if you feel that you're in need of a scholarship,
all you need to do is apply.
And our scholarship deadline is going to be Tuesday, July 30.
So definitely, you can go online,
look at the classes you'd like to take,
apply for the scholarship, and then we take it from there.
So to begin, I'm going to introduce Lehua, a very short,
brief introduction.
And then Susan Briante will be introducing Bojan Louis.
And don't forget, we have books for sale always, to my right.