Thank you so much for joining us tonight
for a lecture by visiting author Margarita Engle entitled
"Finding the Poetry in History."
Margarita is here as part of the Poetry Center's spring reading
series.
She's also been kind enough to spend much of her time
participating in our matinee program through which she'll
be giving readings to students at Tucson-area grade
and high schools as well as delivering the lecture tonight.
I'd like to give a special thanks to the UA Foundation
for sponsoring our 2013-'14 reading series,
to the Act One Foundation, to the Pitt Family Foundation,
and to TCI Wealth Advisors for sponsoring the additional
outreach programs that are components
of Margarita's visit.
After the lecture, there'll be a brief Q&A session during which
you'll have the opportunity to ask Margarita questions
pertaining to the lecture.
You'll also notice that afterwards we're
going to have stacks of books for sale up front,
so please stick around and mingle and purchase a book
if you're interested.
Here tonight to introduce Margarita
is a student who's been teaching through our matinee program.
She's from the Honors College.
Please help me to welcome Rachel Francher.
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