Thank you so much.
Let's give her round of applause to Sylvia too.
That was wonderful.
[APPLAUSE]
She picked me up from the airport today too,
which is very exciting for me.
It was the very first exciting maybe seventh hour of my day
at 9:00 in the morning today.
As she told me, I got into her car, and she said--
I hope I can share this-- but she said,
my vision isn't any good.
I just had surgery on my hand, and I'm
driving with the other hand.
I don't know how to get to the University.
[LAUGHTER]
And this is one of the first times
I've ever driven this car.
[LAUGHTER]
I said, here we go.
She chose scary.
[LAUGHTER]
There are so many of you here.
In groups, you look so beautiful.
[LAUGHTER]
I mean, individually, you do too.
But they're both true, for sure.
[LAUGHTER]
OK, I'm going to read a few poems from Fjords.
I'll read a few poems from a book called Scary,
No Scary too.
Fjords and many of the poems I'm going to read
are available in this newest book
that came out from Black Ocean.
And like Cybele said, also, Spork Press, which--
how many of you are familiar with them?
[APPLAUSE]
[CROWD CHEERS]
They had put out a beautiful chapbook which
came out before that book too.
So I'll read from both of those books
tonight and be efficient about it.