So happy to have such a big crowd here.
And thankful for this.
It's a season where there are many things
you can be listening to.
Thanks for listening to-- listen to poetry tonight here with us.
Thanks for choosing this podium and lectern to listen to.
I'm grateful for all of that.
My name is Tylor Meier.
I work her as the director at the Poetry Center.
I just want to tell you a couple of quick things
that are coming up at the Poetry Center.
Take care of a little bit of housekeeping
and then we'll move on to this reading, which
is the last reading in a really incredible series
that we've been so excited to be hosting here at the Poetry
Center about climate change and its relationship
to language and the language we use to talk about it.
What poets think about that.
And we've been so grateful for this collection of responses
that's been as various as the problems are,
as the challenges are.
And so excited to hear from Alison
tonight as the exclamation point at the end of it all.
To help us finalize some of this thinking,
or help us send us forward into the questions
that we'll pursue in the future.
It's been a great series.
And thanks to you who have come to many of these readings.
We're grateful for that.
Many people made it possible.
And so I just want to thank the actors who
have helped fund this series.
That provided resources to help us put on something
like this at the Poetry Center.
The Agnese Nelms Haury program in environment
and social justice, the College of Science,
the Confluence Center, the Institute
of the Environment here at the University of Arizona,
the Department of Africana Studies,
and of course always the National Endowment
for the Arts.
Thanks to all of them for helping support this.
We're grateful for your ongoing support.