Thanks, Aleida.
Tonight we have a special guest who
will bring on the virtuoso poet Marilyn Hacker.
Marilyn's long-time friend and a luminary
of the literary community here in Tucson, Linda Smukler
is the author of two collections of poetry, Normal Sex and Home
in Three Days, Don't Wash, a book and multimedia project
with an accompanying CD-ROM.
Her work has been widely anthologized
and she's the recipient of numerous awards in poetry
and fiction, including the 1997 Firecracker Alternative Book
Award in poetry.
She has received fellowships in poetry
from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Astraea
Foundation.
She has worked [INAUDIBLE] The World
in Us and the best prose poem.
It's a privilege for us to have Linda here
to present Marilyn Hacker.
And we're very pleased to have her speak for the Poetry
Center, too.
Please welcome Linda Smukler.