I'm Aurelie Sheehan, the director
of the creative writing program here,
and it's a great honor to be welcoming Rick Moody to Tucson,
again.
Before we begin, I'd just like to tell you a couple of things.
One is just to express my gratitude
to the English department, the College of Humanities, Poets
and Writers--
which is a wonderful organization
that's doing kind of a promotion of various small cities,
and helping out with some of their literary events,
and we're one of them--
and, most of all, to the Poetry Center,
for everything that you do to make this romance complete.
So, thank you.
So without further ado, I'd like to introduce the introducer.
Benjamin Rybeck is a second year MFA student here,
and one of the editors of the Sonora Review.
Benjamin.
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