The Poetry Center has long wanted
to invite to Tucson, DA Powell.
And we're fortunate that he's with us here today.
He's the author of four poetry collections.
The first three books form a trilogy--
Tea, Lunch and Cocktails, the latter
of which was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Critics
Circle Award.
His most recent book, Chronic, published in 2009,
received the Kingsley Tufts Award recently,
and was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle
Award.
He's the recipient of many prizes,
and he is the former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer
at Harvard University.
He now teaches in the English department at the University
of San Francisco.