Excuse me, sir.
Sorry.
Oh, thank you very much for your time, Mr. Vizenor.
Before we begin the question and answer period,
we would like to have a brief presentation for you,
as well as I would like to call up Professor Tapahonso and Dr.
Evers.
OK.
How do you want to do this?
Let's let [INAUDIBLE].
Yep.
This is for you.
We have this-- oh, talk into the microphone.
[LAUGHTER]
We're presenting Mr. Vizenor with this "Poetics
and Politics" plaque.
So thank you for coming to join us, and your lovely reading.
Oh, thank you.
That's very thoughtful.
[APPLAUSE]
What we wanted to do tonight, this
is the fifth of the five readings,
and Professor Tapahonso and I wanted to thank all of you
for being such a great audience, such a faithful audience
for our series.
I, myself, wanted to thank Luci for coming by one day
and saying, hey, why don't we do the "Poetics
and Politics" again, giving me the opportunity
to have this experience.
Thank you very much.
Then I think what we'd like to do
is ask each of the students who are currently in our seminar,
our "Poetics and Politics" seminar, who've
done such a fabulous job of actually organizing and running
this, would you all come and stand,
and we'll give you a hand.
Come on.
Matt, come on.
[APPLAUSE]
Each of these students have given so much
to the class beyond their presence,
and beyond just coming and putting together the events,
and hosting the events, their attitude and their generosity
in sharing their thoughts, and just giving
us, Dr. Evers and I, whole new ways to think about writing,
to think about literature, and what we do as teachers.
And the writers that we read are writers that we
have been familiar with.
And so it's just such a wonderful--
it's been really wonderful putting--
just having this seminar.
There's been days when we have not wanted to have discussions.
And so we just want to thank all of them,
and let you know that for us, it's been
a really incredible experience.
[SPEAKING DINÉ BIZAAD] Thank you.
Oh, yeah.
[APPLAUSE]
All right, ladies and gentlemen, now we
will have a brief question and answer period with Mr. Vizenor.
Following that, we will also have a book signing
in the bookstore, with light refreshments over by the doors.
Mr. Vizenor.