Hi, everyone.
I'm Diana Delgado.
I'm the literary director here at the Poetry Center,
and we're really, really excited to host a reading tonight
for Monica Sok and Tiana Clark.
It's an honor to have them here.
Just a few things before we begin.
I'm going to be very brief.
Per normal, we're going to be selling books over here.
There's something extra special though
about this particular selling books tonight
because this is the first time that Monica's book is actually
even available for purchase.
They were overnighted from the publisher.
I don't even think her friends have copies of these books
yet, so this is a pretty big deal.
We're going to have book sales after, book signings here,
and we'll have a short Q&A that I'll lead.
I want to remind everyone that next week we
have Ada Limon, February 20, Thursday,
who's going to be visiting us for the Art for Justice
Initiative, and Lola Rainey will be opening up for her
as sort of the community opener in the Art for Justice
Initiative.
I would like to now invite up the Tucson poet
laureate, TC Tolbert, up to introduce Monica and Tiana, TC.